VacationSelector

Interlaken or New Orleans?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

New Orleans
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

InterlakenNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
InterlakenNew Orleans
Score039
Swim season months07
Beaches 10 km123
Coast distance713 km21 km
Water distance17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 32 points.32
InterlakenNew Orleans
Score2961
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1725
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 22 points.22
InterlakenNew Orleans
Score2345
Museums within 10 km542
Museums within 2 km of centre230
Share of museums within 2 km %4071
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 50 points.50
InterlakenNew Orleans
Score454
Drinking venues within 4 km42704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9070
Nightclubs within 4 km341
Nature & day trips. Interlaken leads by 2 points.2
InterlakenNew Orleans
Score2725
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km5 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 32 points.32
InterlakenNew Orleans
Score1446
Tourist attractions within 2 km1122
Park area within 2 km5 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. New Orleans leads by 18 points.18
InterlakenNew Orleans
Score2240
Notable places within 2 km1440
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. New Orleans leads by 8 points.8
InterlakenNew Orleans
Score3543
Price level global110.5100
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 11 points.11
InterlakenNew Orleans
Score5768
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months30
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 135 km
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 55 m
€178-367
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
CancunCUN
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 55 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 2026-09 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

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 centre181 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre2239
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). 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. 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.