VacationSelector

Calgary or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

New Orleans
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
CalgaryNew Orleans
Score039
Swim season months07
Beaches 10 km43
Coast distance649 km21 km
Water distance17 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 5 points.5
CalgaryNew Orleans
Score6661
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3625
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 36 points.36
CalgaryNew Orleans
Score945
Museums within 10 km842
Museums within 2 km of centre330
Share of museums within 2 km %3871
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 10 points.10
CalgaryNew Orleans
Score4454
Drinking venues within 4 km465704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km1941
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryNew Orleans
Score3625
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km142 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 5 points.5
CalgaryNew Orleans
Score4146
Tourist attractions within 2 km322
Park area within 2 km142 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. New Orleans leads by 1 points.1
CalgaryNew Orleans
Score3940
Notable places within 2 km3740
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryNew Orleans
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryNew Orleans
Score5768
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months80
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
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

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 55 m
€237-270
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
4 h 0 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
DenverDEN, APA
2 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
CancunCUN
5 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 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

MeasureCalgaryNew Orleans
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,045 m-2 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryNew Orleans
City population1,306,784383,997
People per km²1,583423
Museums within 10 km1316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6739
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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.