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The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Bogota 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 Bogota for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

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. Bogota 5, New Orleans 14: New Orleans leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Bogota 66, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Bogota 68, New Orleans 67: Bogota leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Bogota 72, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bogota 64, New Orleans 42: Bogota leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Bogota and New Orleans are level on 52.
Good for families. Bogota 45, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bogota 36, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Bogota 52, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Bogota 77, New Orleans 40: Bogota leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bogota 64, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bogota 28, New Orleans 25: Bogota leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bogota and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bogota
52match

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

New Orleans
54match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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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BogotaNew Orleans

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBogotaNew Orleans
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number123911
Elevation2,582 m-2 m
Main airportEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBogotaNew Orleans
City population8,034,649383,997
People per km²5,092423
Museums within 10 km3016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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.

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.