VacationSelector

Malaga or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

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

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on 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.

MalagaNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 27 points.27
MalagaNew Orleans
Score6639
Swim season months37
Beaches 10 km213
Coast distance0 km21 km
Water distance0 km17 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 8 points.8
MalagaNew Orleans
Score6961
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,002803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3425
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 8 points.8
MalagaNew Orleans
Score5345
Museums within 10 km4042
Museums within 2 km of centre3530
Share of museums within 2 km %8871
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Malaga and New Orleans are level on 54.
MalagaNew Orleans
Score5454
Drinking venues within 4 km715704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre486495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6870
Nightclubs within 4 km4541
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 18 points.18
MalagaNew Orleans
Score4325
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6389
Park area within 2 km85 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 7 points.7
MalagaNew Orleans
Score5346
Tourist attractions within 2 km3322
Park area within 2 km85 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. New Orleans leads by 3 points.3
MalagaNew Orleans
Score3740
Notable places within 2 km3340
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 28 points.28
MalagaNew Orleans
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 14 points.14
MalagaNew Orleans
Score8268
Monthly daytime high17.2 °C to 31.5 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 88 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months50
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMalagaNew Orleans
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
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

MeasureMalagaNew Orleans
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation18 m-2 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaNew Orleans
City population599,063383,997
People per km²1,517423
Museums within 10 km3216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre6539
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. 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.