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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Biarritz 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 Biarritz for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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. Biarritz 68, New Orleans 14: Biarritz leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 49 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, New Orleans 42: Biarritz leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, New Orleans 52: Biarritz leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, New Orleans 55: Biarritz leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, New Orleans 55: Biarritz leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, New Orleans 40: New Orleans leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, New Orleans 25: Biarritz leads by 39 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Biarritz
54match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

New Orleans
54match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Biarritz in July

24 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
97 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Biarritz: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Biarritz (2.5 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzNew Orleans
Official languageFrench-
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
Elevation0 m-2 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzNew Orleans
City population26,206383,997
People per km²2,240423
Museums within 10 km816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months7 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. 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.

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.