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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Hoi An 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 Hoi An for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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. Hoi An 72, New Orleans 14: Hoi An leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An 28, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 57 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, New Orleans 42: Hoi An leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, New Orleans 52: New Orleans leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, New Orleans 55: Hoi An leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Hoi An 48, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, New Orleans 54: Hoi An leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, New Orleans 40: Hoi An leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, New Orleans 25: Hoi An leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and prices 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.

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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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Hoi AnNew Orleans

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnNew Orleans
Official languageVietnamese-
CurrencyDong (VND)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation13 m-2 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnNew Orleans
City population121,716383,997
People per km²-423
Museums within 10 km516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.