VacationSelector

New Orleans or Porto?

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

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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 OrleansPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 21 points.21
New OrleansPorto
Score3960
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km352
Coast distance21 km4 km
Water distance17 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 7 points.7
New OrleansPorto
Score6168
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8031,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2527
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 26 points.26
New OrleansPorto
Score4571
Museums within 10 km42101
Museums within 2 km of centre3057
Share of museums within 2 km %7156
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Porto leads by 4 points.4
New OrleansPorto
Score5458
Drinking venues within 4 km704900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7063
Nightclubs within 4 km4138
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 8 points.8
New OrleansPorto
Score2533
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8961
Park area within 2 km43 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 19 points.19
New OrleansPorto
Score4665
Tourist attractions within 2 km22122
Park area within 2 km43 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 14 points.14
New OrleansPorto
Score4054
Notable places within 2 km4085
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 31 points.31
New OrleansPorto
Score4374
Price level global10055.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 3 points.3
New OrleansPorto
Score6871
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months03
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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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansPorto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
CancunCUN
1 h 55 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
BostonBOS, PSM
3 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
6 h 35 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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 OrleansPorto
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation-2 m104 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansPorto
City population383,997231,800
People per km²4235,599
Museums within 10 km1642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3970
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 monthsNone

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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.