VacationSelector

Las Vegas or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

Las VegasNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
Las VegasNew Orleans
Score039
Swim season months07
Beaches 10 km03
Coast distance372 km21 km
Water distance17 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 1 points.1
Las VegasNew Orleans
Score6261
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2425
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 26 points.26
Las VegasNew Orleans
Score1945
Museums within 10 km2442
Museums within 2 km of centre430
Share of museums within 2 km %1771
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 4 points.4
Las VegasNew Orleans
Score5854
Drinking venues within 4 km793704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6170
Nightclubs within 4 km9041
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 38 points.38
Las VegasNew Orleans
Score6325
Protected land share 50 km %504
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km7 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 12 points.12
Las VegasNew Orleans
Score3446
Tourist attractions within 2 km1922
Park area within 2 km7 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 11 points.11
Las VegasNew Orleans
Score5140
Notable places within 2 km7540
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Las Vegas and New Orleans are level on 43.
Las VegasNew Orleans
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 4 points.4
Las VegasNew Orleans
Score7268
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months120
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
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
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. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasNew Orleans
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
3 h 0 m
€166-315
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
4 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
CancunCUN
4 h 25 m
no fares
LAS · 4 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLas VegasNew Orleans
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation610 m-2 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasNew Orleans
City population641,903383,997
People per km²1,843423
Museums within 10 km2116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4939
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). 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.