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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Antwerp 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 Antwerp for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

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. Antwerp 15, New Orleans 14: Antwerp leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, New Orleans 67: Antwerp leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, New Orleans 42: New Orleans leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, New Orleans 52: Antwerp leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, New Orleans 55: Antwerp leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, New Orleans 55: Antwerp leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, New Orleans 54: Antwerp leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, New Orleans 40: New Orleans leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, New Orleans 25: Antwerp leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Antwerp
55match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

New Orleans
54match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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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Where the figures come from

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpNew Orleans
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m-2 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpNew Orleans
City population529,247383,997
People per km²2,542423
Museums within 10 km3816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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). 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.