VacationSelector

Catania or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

CataniaNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 19 points.19
CataniaNew Orleans
Score5839
Swim season months57
Beaches 10 km53
Coast distance1 km21 km
Water distance1 km17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 12 points.12
CataniaNew Orleans
Score4961
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1425
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 14 points.14
CataniaNew Orleans
Score5945
Museums within 10 km3442
Museums within 2 km of centre2730
Share of museums within 2 km %7971
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 7 points.7
CataniaNew Orleans
Score4754
Drinking venues within 4 km537704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7570
Nightclubs within 4 km1841
Nature & day trips. Catania leads by 6 points.6
CataniaNew Orleans
Score3125
Protected land share 50 km %104
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6189
Park area within 2 km11 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 10 points.10
CataniaNew Orleans
Score3646
Tourist attractions within 2 km2522
Park area within 2 km11 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. New Orleans leads by 1 points.1
CataniaNew Orleans
Score3940
Notable places within 2 km3740
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 25 points.25
CataniaNew Orleans
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 9 points.9
CataniaNew Orleans
Score7768
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months50
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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCataniaNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
9 h 25 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

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 centre95 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

MeasureCataniaNew Orleans
City population311,584383,997
People per km²1,704423
Museums within 10 km2516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3039
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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. 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.