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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
The lighthouse and harbour at Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharm el-Sheikh
Sharm el-SheikhThe lighthouse and harbour at Sharm el-Sheikh

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Sharm el-Sheikh by Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Nashville or Sharm el-Sheikh?

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 Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Sharm el-Sheikh for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sharm el-Sheikh’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. Nashville 14, Sharm el-Sheikh 87: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Sharm el-Sheikh 30: Nashville leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Sharm el-Sheikh 12: Nashville leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Sharm el-Sheikh 42: Nashville leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Sharm el-Sheikh 82: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Sharm el-Sheikh 30: Nashville leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Sharm el-Sheikh 62: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Sharm el-Sheikh 22: Nashville leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Sharm el-Sheikh 25: Nashville leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Sharm el-Sheikh 74: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Sharm el-Sheikh 10: Nashville leads by 72 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Sharm el-Sheikh 50: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Sharm el-Sheikh.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sharm el-Sheikh
44match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Sharm el-Sheikh in July

38 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sharm el-Sheikh has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). Sharm el-Sheikh: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureNashvilleSharm el-Sheikh
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation182 m1 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsSharm El Sheikh International Airport (SSH)16 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNashvilleSharm el-Sheikh
City population689,44773,000
People per km²506-
Museums within 10 km121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.