VacationSelector

Dresden 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

Dresden
48
match

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

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

DresdenNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
DresdenNew Orleans
Score039
Swim season months07
Beaches 10 km223
Coast distance267 km21 km
Water distance17 km
Places to eat. Dresden and New Orleans are level on 61.
DresdenNew Orleans
Score6161
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4225
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
DresdenNew Orleans
Score5445
Museums within 10 km6642
Museums within 2 km of centre3430
Share of museums within 2 km %5271
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 12 points.12
DresdenNew Orleans
Score4254
Drinking venues within 4 km359704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km4341
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 14 points.14
DresdenNew Orleans
Score3925
Protected land share 50 km %144
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km80 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 13 points.13
DresdenNew Orleans
Score5946
Tourist attractions within 2 km3222
Park area within 2 km80 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 13 points.13
DresdenNew Orleans
Score5340
Notable places within 2 km8240
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenNew Orleans
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 6 points.6
DresdenNew Orleans
Score6268
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months40
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
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
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
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 35 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 112 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 2026-08 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

MeasureDresdenNew Orleans
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation126 m-2 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenNew Orleans
City population564,904383,997
People per km²1,720423
Museums within 10 km7016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7739
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.