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The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Manchester 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 Manchester for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Manchester 9, New Orleans 14: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Manchester 51, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Manchester 50, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Manchester 72, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manchester 64, New Orleans 42: Manchester leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Manchester 77, New Orleans 52: Manchester leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Manchester 58, New Orleans 55: Manchester leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Manchester 68, New Orleans 55: Manchester leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Manchester 62, New Orleans 54: Manchester leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Manchester 42, New Orleans 40: Manchester leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manchester 74, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manchester 15, New Orleans 25: New Orleans leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manchester and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Manchester
54match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

New Orleans
54match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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ManchesterNew Orleans

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManchesterNew Orleans
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation38 m-2 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterNew Orleans
City population547,627383,997
People per km²4,737423
Museums within 10 km2816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.