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The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

New Orleans or Osaka?

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 New Orleans for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Osaka for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’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. New Orleans 14, Osaka 34: Osaka leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. New Orleans 84, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. New Orleans 67, Osaka 63: New Orleans leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. New Orleans 85, Osaka 80: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. New Orleans 42, Osaka 58: Osaka leads by 16 points.
Day trips. New Orleans 52, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 45 points.
Good for families. New Orleans 55, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 33 points.
Getting around. New Orleans 55, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. New Orleans 54, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 26 points.
Affordability. New Orleans 40, Osaka 60: Osaka leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. New Orleans 80, Osaka 66: New Orleans leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. New Orleans 25, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 41 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: New Orleans and Osaka.

Your match

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

New Orleans
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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New OrleansOsaka

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNew OrleansOsaka
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation-2 m20 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansOsaka
City population383,9972,751,862
People per km²42312,340
Museums within 10 km1644
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 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.