VacationSelector

Bruges or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

New Orleans
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

BrugesNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 31 points.31
BrugesNew Orleans
Score839
Swim season months07
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance14 km21 km
Water distance14 km17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 4 points.4
BrugesNew Orleans
Score5761
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3225
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 12 points.12
BrugesNew Orleans
Score5745
Museums within 10 km3042
Museums within 2 km of centre2430
Share of museums within 2 km %8071
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 20 points.20
BrugesNew Orleans
Score3454
Drinking venues within 4 km292704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8070
Nightclubs within 4 km841
Nature & day trips. Bruges leads by 1 points.1
BrugesNew Orleans
Score2625
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6589
Park area within 2 km59 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 14 points.14
BrugesNew Orleans
Score6046
Tourist attractions within 2 km5222
Park area within 2 km59 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bruges and New Orleans are level on 40.
BrugesNew Orleans
Score4040
Notable places within 2 km4040
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges leads by 17 points.17
BrugesNew Orleans
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 12 points.12
BrugesNew Orleans
Score5668
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months10
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 45 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

MeasureBrugesNew Orleans
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch
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
Elevation2 m-2 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 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

MeasureBrugesNew Orleans
City population118,509383,997
People per km²840423
Museums within 10 km3816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre5139
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 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). 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. 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.