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Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Hurghada 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 Hurghada for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Hurghada 84, New Orleans 14: Hurghada leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Hurghada 34, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Hurghada 14, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Hurghada 40, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hurghada 72, New Orleans 42: Hurghada leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Hurghada 30, New Orleans 52: New Orleans leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Hurghada 62, New Orleans 55: Hurghada leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Hurghada 22, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Hurghada 24, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Hurghada 80, New Orleans 40: Hurghada leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hurghada 10, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 70 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hurghada 44, New Orleans 25: Hurghada leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hurghada and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Hurghada
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HurghadaNew Orleans

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHurghadaNew Orleans
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation11 m-2 m
Main airportHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHurghadaNew Orleans
City population214,247383,997
People per km²-423
Museums within 10 km116
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). 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.