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The Explanada de España, Alicante
AlicanteThe Explanada de España
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Alicante by Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Alicante or New Orleans?

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 Alicante for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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. Alicante 82, New Orleans 14: Alicante leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Alicante 67, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Alicante 46, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Alicante 60, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alicante 63, New Orleans 42: Alicante leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Alicante 72, New Orleans 52: Alicante leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Alicante 68, New Orleans 55: Alicante leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Alicante 66, New Orleans 55: Alicante leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Alicante 44, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Alicante 60, New Orleans 40: Alicante leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alicante 37, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alicante 40, New Orleans 25: Alicante leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alicante and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Alicante
Best match
59match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

New Orleans
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Alicante in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlicanteNew Orleans

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteNew Orleans
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m-2 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteNew Orleans
City population366,221383,997
People per km²1,819423
Museums within 10 km816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months7 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.