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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

Luxor or Wellington?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Luxor for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Luxor’s own page.

Choose Wellington for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Luxor 6, Wellington 33: Wellington leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Wellington 44: Luxor leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Wellington 45: Wellington leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Wellington 78: Wellington leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Wellington 40: Luxor leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Wellington 68: Wellington leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Wellington 42: Wellington leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Wellington 33: Luxor leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Wellington 30: Wellington leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Wellington.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Wellington
Best match
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Luxor has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre). Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorWellington
Official languageArabicEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180111
Elevation89 m0 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorWellington
City population202,232216,200
People per km²486487
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.