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The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

New Orleans or Porto?

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 Porto for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Porto leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. New Orleans 84, Porto 70: New Orleans leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. New Orleans 67, Porto 68: Porto leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. New Orleans 85, Porto 65: New Orleans leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. New Orleans 42, Porto 64: Porto leads by 22 points.
Day trips. New Orleans 52, Porto 79: Porto leads by 27 points.
Good for families. New Orleans 55, Porto 52: New Orleans leads by 3 points.
Getting around. New Orleans 55, Porto 66: Porto leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. New Orleans 54, Porto 52: New Orleans leads by 2 points.
Affordability. New Orleans 40, Porto 62: Porto leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. New Orleans 80, Porto 52: New Orleans leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. New Orleans 25, Porto 34: Porto leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: New Orleans and Porto.

Your match

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

New Orleans
54match

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

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on day trips and beaches 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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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New OrleansPorto

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

Before you go

MeasureNew OrleansPorto
Official language-Portuguese
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 centre51 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansPorto
City population383,997273,476
People per km²4236,606
Museums within 10 km1642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 monthsNone

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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.