VacationSelector

New Orleans or Paphos?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Paphos
46
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 OrleansPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 40 points.40
New OrleansPaphos
Score3979
Swim season months76
Beaches 10 km327
Coast distance21 km1 km
Water distance17 km1 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 17 points.17
New OrleansPaphos
Score6144
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2522
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 23 points.23
New OrleansPaphos
Score4522
Museums within 10 km428
Museums within 2 km of centre303
Share of museums within 2 km %7138
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 24 points.24
New OrleansPaphos
Score5430
Drinking venues within 4 km704224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7072
Nightclubs within 4 km4111
Nature & day trips. New Orleans leads by 2 points.2
New OrleansPaphos
Score2523
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8933
Park area within 2 km43 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 4 points.4
New OrleansPaphos
Score4642
Tourist attractions within 2 km2230
Park area within 2 km43 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. New Orleans leads by 21 points.21
New OrleansPaphos
Score4019
Notable places within 2 km4012
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 27 points.27
New OrleansPaphos
Score4370
Price level global10061.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 18 points.18
New OrleansPaphos
Score6886
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months08
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10

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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 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 2026-09, 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 OrleansPaphos
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation-2 m72 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansPaphos
City population383,99735,961
People per km²4231,987
Museums within 10 km164
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3936
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months6 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.