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Baden-Baden or New Orleans?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse, Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden

Photo: Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New Orleans

Photo: Bernard Spragg, CC0

Your match

Baden-Baden
50
match

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

New Orleans
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

Baden-BadenNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 6 points.6
Food & drink. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
Culture & sights. New Orleans leads by 15 points.15
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 70 points.70
Nature & outdoors. Baden-Baden leads by 28 points.28
Day trips. Baden-Baden leads by 26 points.26
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 5 points.5
Getting around. Baden-Baden leads by 7 points.7
Shopping & style. New Orleans leads by 16 points.16
Affordability. New Orleans leads by 10 points.10
Live music & performing arts. New Orleans leads by 22 points.22
Wellness & relaxation. Baden-Baden leads by 71 points.71
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baden-Baden and New Orleans.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBaden-BadenNew Orleans
Daytime high25 °C33 °C
Night-time low14 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month117 mm169 mm
Sunshine8 hours a dayNo figure
Sea temperatureNo sea30 °C
Daylight16 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Baden-Baden
6
7
11
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
6
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Baden-Baden
No coastline within reach
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Baden-Baden
107
99
106
79
119
104
117
102
91
109
113
122
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Baden-Baden
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Baden-Baden
2
3
5
6
7
8
8
7
6
3
2
1
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baden-Baden: 1991-2020 normals, Baden-Baden-Geroldsau (3.9 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBaden-BadenNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 143 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 20 m
€656-803
2 stops
FRA · 143 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 72 km
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 5 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
10 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
CancunCUN
10 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 143 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

MeasureBaden-BadenNew Orleans
Official languageGerman-
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
Elevation181 m-2 m
Main airportKarlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)12 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBaden-BadenNew Orleans
City population56,952383,997
People per km²406423
Museums within 10 km1116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.