VacationSelector

Krakow or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

KrakowNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
KrakowNew Orleans
Score039
Swim season months07
Beaches 10 km93
Coast distance456 km21 km
Water distance17 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 7 points.7
KrakowNew Orleans
Score6861
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3025
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 30 points.30
KrakowNew Orleans
Score7545
Museums within 10 km8442
Museums within 2 km of centre6930
Share of museums within 2 km %8271
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 3 points.3
KrakowNew Orleans
Score5754
Drinking venues within 4 km836704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8370
Nightclubs within 4 km5441
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
KrakowNew Orleans
Score4625
Protected land share 50 km %144
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km79 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 28 points.28
KrakowNew Orleans
Score7446
Tourist attractions within 2 km7722
Park area within 2 km79 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 28 points.28
KrakowNew Orleans
Score6840
Notable places within 2 km19840
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 36 points.36
KrakowNew Orleans
Score7943
Price level global49100
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 10 points.10
KrakowNew Orleans
Score5868
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months40
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
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
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. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowNew Orleans
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
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

MeasureKrakowNew Orleans
Official languagePolish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m-2 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowNew Orleans
City population804,237383,997
People per km²2,459423
Museums within 10 km11416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6839
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.