VacationSelector

New Orleans or Osaka?

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.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

New OrleansOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 16 points.16
New OrleansOsaka
Score3955
Swim season months75
Beaches 10 km325
Coast distance21 km7 km
Water distance17 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 29 points.29
New OrleansOsaka
Score6190
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8039,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2525
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 19 points.19
New OrleansOsaka
Score4564
Museums within 10 km4278
Museums within 2 km of centre3022
Share of museums within 2 km %7128
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 43 points.43
New OrleansOsaka
Score5497
Drinking venues within 4 km7048,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4954,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7053
Nightclubs within 4 km4197
Nature & day trips. Osaka leads by 3 points.3
New OrleansOsaka
Score2528
Protected land share 50 km %41
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %8984
Park area within 2 km43 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 26 points.26
New OrleansOsaka
Score4672
Tourist attractions within 2 km2247
Park area within 2 km43 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 8 points.8
New OrleansOsaka
Score4048
Notable places within 2 km4063
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 27 points.27
New OrleansOsaka
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 5 points.5
New OrleansOsaka
Score6863
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm47 mm to 185 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
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

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). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansOsaka
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
San FranciscoSFO
4 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
2 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
MinneapolisMSP, STP
2 h 40 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
4 h 35 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
ITM · 11 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

MeasureNew OrleansOsaka
Official languageJapanese
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 centre50 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 km1643
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre3997
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 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.