VacationSelector

New Orleans or Palermo?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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 OrleansPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 28 points.28
New OrleansPalermo
Score3967
Swim season months75
Beaches 10 km313
Coast distance21 km1 km
Water distance17 km1 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 11 points.11
New OrleansPalermo
Score6150
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2513
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 5 points.5
New OrleansPalermo
Score4550
Museums within 10 km4232
Museums within 2 km of centre3026
Share of museums within 2 km %7181
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 1 points.1
New OrleansPalermo
Score5453
Drinking venues within 4 km704799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7064
Nightclubs within 4 km4116
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 11 points.11
New OrleansPalermo
Score2536
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8945
Park area within 2 km43 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 5 points.5
New OrleansPalermo
Score4641
Tourist attractions within 2 km2216
Park area within 2 km43 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 17 points.17
New OrleansPalermo
Score4057
Notable places within 2 km40104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 25 points.25
New OrleansPalermo
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 9 points.9
New OrleansPalermo
Score6877
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months07
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

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). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansPalermo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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 OrleansPalermo
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation-2 m14 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansPalermo
City population383,997630,167
People per km²4233,924
Museums within 10 km1642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3933
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. 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.