VacationSelector

Inverness or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

New Orleans
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

InvernessNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 11 points.11
InvernessNew Orleans
Score2839
Swim season months07
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance1 km21 km
Water distance1 km17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 40 points.40
InvernessNew Orleans
Score2161
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1125
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 25 points.25
InvernessNew Orleans
Score2045
Museums within 10 km642
Museums within 2 km of centre530
Share of museums within 2 km %8371
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
InvernessNew Orleans
Score1554
Drinking venues within 4 km113704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8770
Nightclubs within 4 km441
Nature & day trips. New Orleans leads by 16 points.16
InvernessNew Orleans
Score925
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8889
Park area within 2 km3 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 46 points.46
InvernessNew Orleans
Score046
Tourist attractions within 2 km322
Park area within 2 km3 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. New Orleans leads by 16 points.16
InvernessNew Orleans
Score2440
Notable places within 2 km1640
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Inverness leads by 11 points.11
InvernessNew Orleans
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 16 points.16
InvernessNew Orleans
Score5268
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months10
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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessNew Orleans
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
9 h 25 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 2026-08 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

MeasureInvernessNew Orleans
Official languageEnglish–
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation7 m-2 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 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

MeasureInvernessNew Orleans
City population47,380383,997
People per km²2,289423
Museums within 10 km316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1539
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. 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.