VacationSelector

Amsterdam or New Orleans?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AmsterdamNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 1 points.1
AmsterdamNew Orleans
Score4039
Swim season months07
Beaches 10 km333
Coast distance24 km21 km
Water distance24 km17 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 22 points.22
AmsterdamNew Orleans
Score8361
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4425
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 35 points.35
AmsterdamNew Orleans
Score8045
Museums within 10 km9842
Museums within 2 km of centre6930
Share of museums within 2 km %7071
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 16 points.16
AmsterdamNew Orleans
Score7054
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7070
Nightclubs within 4 km11441
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 35 points.35
AmsterdamNew Orleans
Score6025
Protected land share 50 km %214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8289
Park area within 2 km49 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 22 points.22
AmsterdamNew Orleans
Score6846
Tourist attractions within 2 km7422
Park area within 2 km49 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 28 points.28
AmsterdamNew Orleans
Score6840
Notable places within 2 km19640
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Amsterdam leads by 15 points.15
AmsterdamNew Orleans
Score5843
Price level global79.2100
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 11 points.11
AmsterdamNew Orleans
Score5768
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
7 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
10 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
CancunCUN
10 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAmsterdamNew Orleans
Official languageDutch
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 number112 or 911911
Elevation-2 m-2 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamNew Orleans
City population921,468383,997
People per km²4,208423
Museums within 10 km10116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre9839
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.