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The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi
Elizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth, Perth
PerthElizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth

Photos: New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0; Perth by Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

New Orleans or Perth?

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

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Perth for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Perth’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, Perth 86: Perth leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. New Orleans 84, Perth 58: New Orleans leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. New Orleans 67, Perth 42: New Orleans leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. New Orleans 85, Perth 42: New Orleans leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. New Orleans 42, Perth 72: Perth leads by 30 points.
Day trips. New Orleans 52, Perth 48: New Orleans leads by 4 points.
Good for families. New Orleans 55, Perth 74: Perth leads by 19 points.
Getting around. New Orleans and Perth are level on 55.
Shopping & style. New Orleans 54, Perth 44: New Orleans leads by 10 points.
Affordability. New Orleans 40, Perth 28: New Orleans leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. New Orleans 80, Perth 50: New Orleans leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. New Orleans 25, Perth 38: Perth leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: New Orleans and Perth.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

New Orleans
54match

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

Perth
53match

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
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Perth in July

19 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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New OrleansPerth

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre). Perth: 1991-2020 normals, Perth (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNew OrleansPerth
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911000
Elevation-2 m2 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinationsPerth International Airport (PER)10 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansPerth
City population383,9972,141,834
People per km²423334
Museums within 10 km1615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.