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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Interlaken 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 Interlaken for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Interlaken’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. Interlaken 30, New Orleans 14: Interlaken leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 59 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 70 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, New Orleans 42: Interlaken leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, New Orleans 52: Interlaken leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, New Orleans 55: Interlaken leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, New Orleans 55: Interlaken leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, New Orleans 40: New Orleans leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 65 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, New Orleans 25: Interlaken leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Interlaken
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

New Orleans
Best match
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.

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 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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InterlakenNew Orleans

Where the figures come from

Interlaken 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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenNew Orleans
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh-
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation571 m-2 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenNew Orleans
City population6,123383,997
People per km²1,424423
Museums within 10 km316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.