VacationSelector

New Orleans or Oslo?

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 and nightlife with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration 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 OrleansOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 21 points.21
New OrleansOslo
Score3960
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km3163
Coast distance21 km1 km
Water distance17 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 6 points.6
New OrleansOslo
Score6167
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2534
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 3 points.3
New OrleansOslo
Score4548
Museums within 10 km4270
Museums within 2 km of centre3037
Share of museums within 2 km %7153
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 1 points.1
New OrleansOslo
Score5453
Drinking venues within 4 km704695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7081
Nightclubs within 4 km4141
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 36 points.36
New OrleansOslo
Score2561
Protected land share 50 km %422
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %8994
Park area within 2 km43 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 2 points.2
New OrleansOslo
Score4648
Tourist attractions within 2 km2213
Park area within 2 km43 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 29 points.29
New OrleansOslo
Score4069
Notable places within 2 km40207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Oslo leads by 11 points.11
New OrleansOslo
Score4354
Price level global10085.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 20 points.20
New OrleansOslo
Score6848
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

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). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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 OrleansOslo
Official language–Norwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation-2 m23 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansOslo
City population383,997717,710
People per km²423–
Museums within 10 km1660
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3975
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 monthsNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.