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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Catania 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 Catania for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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. Catania 72, New Orleans 14: Catania leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Catania 62, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Catania 60, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, New Orleans 42: Catania leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, New Orleans 52: Catania leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Catania 50, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Catania 48, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Catania 42, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Catania 60, New Orleans 40: Catania leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania 30, New Orleans 25: Catania leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Catania and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

New Orleans
54match

Wins on nightlife 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.

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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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CataniaNew Orleans

Where the figures come from

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCataniaNew Orleans
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m-2 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaNew Orleans
City population311,584383,997
People per km²1,704423
Museums within 10 km2516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months7 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. 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.

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.