VacationSelector

Athens or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AthensNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 9 points.9
AthensNew Orleans
Score4839
Swim season months57
Beaches 10 km143
Coast distance6 km21 km
Water distance6 km17 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 8 points.8
AthensNew Orleans
Score6961
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2525
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 28 points.28
AthensNew Orleans
Score7345
Museums within 10 km12242
Museums within 2 km of centre7830
Share of museums within 2 km %6471
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Athens leads by 27 points.27
AthensNew Orleans
Score8154
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5070
Nightclubs within 4 km13641
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 20 points.20
AthensNew Orleans
Score4525
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5089
Park area within 2 km128 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 25 points.25
AthensNew Orleans
Score7146
Tourist attractions within 2 km6822
Park area within 2 km128 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 35 points.35
AthensNew Orleans
Score7540
Notable places within 2 km29140
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 31 points.31
AthensNew Orleans
Score7443
Price level global55.8100
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 6 points.6
AthensNew Orleans
Score7468
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months70
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromAthensNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
10 h 25 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
11 h 0 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
12 h 30 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
11 h 25 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
BostonBOS, PSM
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 15 m
€634
ATH · 20 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
CharlotteCLT
11 h 0 m
no fares
ATH · 20 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAthensNew Orleans
Official languageGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation74 m-2 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensNew Orleans
City population643,452383,997
People per km²16,499423
Museums within 10 km8816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8239
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months7 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.