VacationSelector

Bodrum or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

BodrumNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 38 points.38
BodrumNew Orleans
Score7739
Swim season months57
Beaches 10 km303
Coast distance0 km21 km
Water distance0 km17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 11 points.11
BodrumNew Orleans
Score5061
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2025
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 25 points.25
BodrumNew Orleans
Score2045
Museums within 10 km542
Museums within 2 km of centre430
Share of museums within 2 km %8071
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 9 points.9
BodrumNew Orleans
Score4554
Drinking venues within 4 km418704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8070
Nightclubs within 4 km6041
Nature & day trips. New Orleans leads by 6 points.6
BodrumNew Orleans
Score1925
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3589
Park area within 2 km3 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 24 points.24
BodrumNew Orleans
Score2246
Tourist attractions within 2 km1522
Park area within 2 km3 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. New Orleans leads by 22 points.22
BodrumNew Orleans
Score1840
Notable places within 2 km1140
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 46 points.46
BodrumNew Orleans
Score8943
Price level global35.2100
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 9 points.9
BodrumNew Orleans
Score7768
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months50
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
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumNew Orleans
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 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

MeasureBodrumNew Orleans
Official languageTurkish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m-2 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumNew Orleans
City population175,000383,997
People per km²314423
Museums within 10 km416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3039
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). 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. 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.