VacationSelector

Cardiff or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cardiff
48
match

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

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

CardiffNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 7 points.7
CardiffNew Orleans
Score4639
Swim season months07
Beaches 10 km83
Coast distance2 km21 km
Water distance2 km17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 1 points.1
CardiffNew Orleans
Score6061
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3225
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 6 points.6
CardiffNew Orleans
Score3945
Museums within 10 km6142
Museums within 2 km of centre630
Share of museums within 2 km %1071
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 6 points.6
CardiffNew Orleans
Score4854
Drinking venues within 4 km536704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km3541
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 25 points.25
CardiffNew Orleans
Score5025
Protected land share 50 km %184
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6889
Park area within 2 km88 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 14 points.14
CardiffNew Orleans
Score3246
Tourist attractions within 2 km422
Park area within 2 km88 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 5 points.5
CardiffNew Orleans
Score4540
Notable places within 2 km5140
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cardiff leads by 11 points.11
CardiffNew Orleans
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 14 points.14
CardiffNew Orleans
Score5468
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
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
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCardiffNew Orleans
CancunCUN
9 h 55 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 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.

Before you go

MeasureCardiffNew Orleans
Official languageEnglish–
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation41 m-2 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffNew Orleans
City population383,536383,997
People per km²2,734423
Museums within 10 km916
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5539
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). 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. 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.