VacationSelector

New Orleans or New York?

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

Your match

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

New OrleansNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 25 points.25
New OrleansNew York
Score3964
Swim season months73
Beaches 10 km317
Coast distance21 km1 km
Water distance17 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 34 points.34
New OrleansNew York
Score6195
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8036,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2538
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 15 points.15
New OrleansNew York
Score4560
Museums within 10 km42119
Museums within 2 km of centre3031
Share of museums within 2 km %7126
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. New York leads by 35 points.35
New OrleansNew York
Score5489
Drinking venues within 4 km7044,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4952,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7048
Nightclubs within 4 km41192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 14 points.14
New OrleansNew York
Score2539
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8969
Park area within 2 km43 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 26 points.26
New OrleansNew York
Score4672
Tourist attractions within 2 km2237
Park area within 2 km43 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. New York leads by 34 points.34
New OrleansNew York
Score4074
Notable places within 2 km40268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. New Orleans and New York are level on 43.
New OrleansNew York
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 10 points.10
New OrleansNew York
Score6858
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm74 mm to 112 mm
Dry months00
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
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansNew York
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
3 h 20 m
€201-385
LGA · 13 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€165-236
EWR · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
5 h 20 m
€314-354
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
1 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
2 h 30 m
€207-260
LGA · 13 km
RaleighRDU
2 h 10 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€201-279
1 stop
LGA · 13 km
DenverDEN, APA
2 h 40 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LGA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
CancunCUN
1 h 55 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureNew OrleansNew York
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation-2 m25 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansNew York
City population383,9978,804,190
People per km²4237,256
Museums within 10 km16157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre39132
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months3 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). 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. 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.