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Buenos Aires or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

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

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

Buenos AiresNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresNew Orleans
Score3339
Swim season months47
Beaches 10 km03
Coast distance2 km21 km
Water distance2 km17 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresNew Orleans
Score6761
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2625
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 21 points.21
Buenos AiresNew Orleans
Score6645
Museums within 10 km14842
Museums within 2 km of centre7130
Share of museums within 2 km %4871
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.14
Buenos AiresNew Orleans
Score6854
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6070
Nightclubs within 4 km16041
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 18 points.18
Buenos AiresNew Orleans
Score4325
Protected land share 50 km %94
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6789
Park area within 2 km69 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.23
Buenos AiresNew Orleans
Score6946
Tourist attractions within 2 km4922
Park area within 2 km69 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km61
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
Buenos AiresNew Orleans
Score6040
Notable places within 2 km12540
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.39
Buenos AiresNew Orleans
Score8243
Price level global45.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.7
Buenos AiresNew Orleans
Score7568
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months00
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
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 5 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 55 m
€178-367
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
10 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
10 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
CancunCUN
8 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBuenos AiresNew Orleans
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m-2 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresNew Orleans
City population3,121,707383,997
People per km²15,355423
Museums within 10 km7516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5539
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.