VacationSelector

Limassol 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, 1 point apart

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

LimassolNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 40 points.40
LimassolNew Orleans
Score7939
Swim season months67
Beaches 10 km273
Coast distance1 km21 km
Water distance1 km17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 18 points.18
LimassolNew Orleans
Score4361
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1925
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 1 points.1
LimassolNew Orleans
Score4445
Museums within 10 km1742
Museums within 2 km of centre1030
Share of museums within 2 km %5971
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 15 points.15
LimassolNew Orleans
Score3954
Drinking venues within 4 km340704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7570
Nightclubs within 4 km2041
Nature & day trips. New Orleans leads by 3 points.3
LimassolNew Orleans
Score2225
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4989
Park area within 2 km32 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 30 points.30
LimassolNew Orleans
Score1646
Tourist attractions within 2 km322
Park area within 2 km32 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. New Orleans leads by 26 points.26
LimassolNew Orleans
Score1440
Notable places within 2 km940
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 27 points.27
LimassolNew Orleans
Score7043
Price level global61.4100
Daily budget€129—
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 17 points.17
LimassolNew Orleans
Score8568
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months80
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolNew Orleans
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureLimassolNew Orleans
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek–
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m-2 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolNew Orleans
City population107,970383,997
People per km²2,405423
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2839
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months7 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.