VacationSelector

Mexico City or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

Mexico CityNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
Mexico CityNew Orleans
Score039
Swim season months07
Beaches 10 km43
Coast distance247 km21 km
Water distance17 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 5 points.5
Mexico CityNew Orleans
Score6661
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1525
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 34 points.34
Mexico CityNew Orleans
Score7945
Museums within 10 km13842
Museums within 2 km of centre6530
Share of museums within 2 km %4771
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 24 points.24
Mexico CityNew Orleans
Score7854
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4370
Nightclubs within 4 km19841
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 38 points.38
Mexico CityNew Orleans
Score6325
Protected land share 50 km %304
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km32 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 4 points.4
Mexico CityNew Orleans
Score5046
Tourist attractions within 2 km2322
Park area within 2 km32 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
Mexico CityNew Orleans
Score5440
Notable places within 2 km8840
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
Mexico CityNew Orleans
Score7643
Price level global54.2100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
Mexico CityNew Orleans
Score9068
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months60
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
DenverDEN, APA
3 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
3 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€178-367
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMexico CityNew Orleans
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,240 m-2 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityNew Orleans
City population9,209,944383,997
People per km²6,202423
Museums within 10 km10816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre5039
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.