VacationSelector

New Orleans or Paris?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

New OrleansParis
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
New OrleansParis
Score390
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km32
Coast distance21 km149 km
Water distance17 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 29 points.29
New OrleansParis
Score6190
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8034,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2533
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 31 points.31
New OrleansParis
Score4576
Museums within 10 km42185
Museums within 2 km of centre3065
Share of museums within 2 km %7135
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Paris leads by 34 points.34
New OrleansParis
Score5488
Drinking venues within 4 km7043,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4951,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7045
Nightclubs within 4 km41201
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 23 points.23
New OrleansParis
Score2548
Protected land share 50 km %428
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 29 points.29
New OrleansParis
Score4675
Tourist attractions within 2 km2289
Park area within 2 km43 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 54 points.54
New OrleansParis
Score4094
Notable places within 2 km40865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 19 points.19
New OrleansParis
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 2 points.2
New OrleansParis
Score6866
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months01
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8

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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansParis
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
9 h 0 m
€555-767
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
11 h 25 m
€687-789
CDG · 22 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
1 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
CancunCUN
1 h 55 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
CDG · 22 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 OrleansParis
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation-2 m27 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansParis
City population383,9972,103,778
People per km²42319,960
Museums within 10 km16251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre39169
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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.