VacationSelector

Bangkok or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

BangkokNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 1 points.1
BangkokNew Orleans
Score4039
Swim season months127
Beaches 10 km03
Coast distance23 km21 km
Water distance23 km17 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
BangkokNew Orleans
Score8361
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2625
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 1 points.1
BangkokNew Orleans
Score4645
Museums within 10 km10342
Museums within 2 km of centre3030
Share of museums within 2 km %2971
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 29 points.29
BangkokNew Orleans
Score8354
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4170
Nightclubs within 4 km7241
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 26 points.26
BangkokNew Orleans
Score5125
Protected land share 50 km %—4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8389
Park area within 2 km42 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 11 points.11
BangkokNew Orleans
Score5746
Tourist attractions within 2 km3122
Park area within 2 km42 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 8 points.8
BangkokNew Orleans
Score4840
Notable places within 2 km6240
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 50 points.50
BangkokNew Orleans
Score9343
Price level global29.7100
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 12 points.12
BangkokNew Orleans
Score5668
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months30
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokNew Orleans
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
9 h 25 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

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 centre142 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre9139
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. 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.