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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Huatulco 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 Huatulco for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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. Huatulco 86, New Orleans 14: Huatulco leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 61 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, New Orleans 42: Huatulco leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, New Orleans 52: New Orleans leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, New Orleans 55: Huatulco leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco 20, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, New Orleans 40: Huatulco leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 71 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, New Orleans 25: Huatulco leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huatulco and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Huatulco
43match

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

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Huatulco in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
156 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °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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HuatulcoNew Orleans

Where the figures come from

Huatulco's temperatures are measured 42 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Huatulco's station stands 177 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Huatulco has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Huatulco: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (42.2 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoNew Orleans
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation220 m-2 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoNew Orleans
City population7,409383,997
People per km²-423
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.