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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
BucharestThe CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Bucharest by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Bucharest 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 Bucharest for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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. Bucharest 8, New Orleans 14: New Orleans leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Bucharest 55, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Bucharest 58, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Bucharest 70, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest 45, New Orleans 42: Bucharest leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Bucharest and New Orleans are level on 52.
Good for families. Bucharest 52, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Bucharest 52, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Bucharest 45, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Bucharest 70, New Orleans 40: Bucharest leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest 60, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest 47, New Orleans 25: Bucharest leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Bucharest
51match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on food and drink 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.

Bucharest in July

30 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
68 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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BucharestNew Orleans

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBucharestNew Orleans
Official languageRomanian-
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation70 m-2 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestNew Orleans
City population1,716,961383,997
People per km²7,597423
Museums within 10 km4116
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.