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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • shopping

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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. Bangkok 12, New Orleans 14: New Orleans leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, New Orleans 84: Bangkok leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, New Orleans 67: Bangkok leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok and New Orleans are level on 85.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, New Orleans 42: New Orleans leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, New Orleans 52: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, New Orleans 54: Bangkok leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, New Orleans 40: Bangkok leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, New Orleans 25: Bangkok leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

New Orleans
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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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BangkokNew Orleans

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokNew Orleans
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m-2 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokNew Orleans
City population5,676,648383,997
People per km²3,619423
Museums within 10 km5916
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 months

Where else could you go?

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.