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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Krakow 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 Krakow for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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. Krakow 9, New Orleans 14: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, New Orleans 67: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, New Orleans 42: Krakow leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, New Orleans 52: Krakow leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, New Orleans 55: Krakow leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, New Orleans 55: Krakow leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, New Orleans 40: Krakow leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, New Orleans 25: Krakow leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

New Orleans
54match

Wins on food and drink 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.

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 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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KrakowNew Orleans

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre132 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 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 km11316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.