🇪🇬 Egypt or 🇮🇹 Italy
And what the world thinks
Dead even. The next vote breaks the tie.
Which one, honestly
Egypt leads on value for money and the sea. Italy leads on food, cities and nature.
A normal day costs about $75 in Egypt and $170 in Italy.
Side by side
- 🇪🇬 Egypt🇮🇹 Italy
- Oct to MarBest monthsApr to May, Sep to Oct
- $75A normal day$170
- 11h 30m to CairoNonstop from New York8h 45m to Rome
- Very goodBeaches and seaGood
- Very goodCities and cultureExceptional
- GoodFoodExceptional
- GoodNature and hikingVery good
- ExceptionalValue for moneyGood
- GoodEasy to get aroundVery good
- Sleeper trains along the Nile and cheap domestic flightsGetting aroundFast trains, genuinely excellent, book in advance
- Upper Egypt from June to August, when Luxor and Aswan are unbearableWhen to avoidThe middle of August, when the cities empty and half the good places shut
Pick by what you want
🇪🇬 Choose Egypt if
you want the oldest thing on this list, a river trip through it, and Red Sea diving, at prices nowhere in Europe matches.
🇮🇹 Choose Italy if
you want three cities in ten days, you care about food and museums, and you would rather take a train than a ferry.
Full Egypt guide →Full Italy guide →
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Written and checked by hand. Nothing here about visas or entry rules: those change often and depend on your passport, so check an official source.