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The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

New Orleans or Paphos?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Paphos for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’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, Paphos 76: Paphos leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. New Orleans 84, Paphos 45: New Orleans leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. New Orleans 67, Paphos 62: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. New Orleans 85, Paphos 38: New Orleans leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. New Orleans 42, Paphos 70: Paphos leads by 28 points.
Day trips. New Orleans 52, Paphos 64: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Good for families. New Orleans 55, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 13 points.
Getting around. New Orleans 55, Paphos 40: New Orleans leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. New Orleans 54, Paphos 25: New Orleans leads by 29 points.
Affordability. New Orleans 40, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. New Orleans 80, Paphos 22: New Orleans leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. New Orleans 25, Paphos 42: Paphos leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: New Orleans and Paphos.

Your match

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

New Orleans
Best match
54match

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

Paphos
50match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Paphos has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

Before you go

MeasureNew OrleansPaphos
Official language-Turkish, 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 centre51 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months6 months

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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. 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.

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.