VacationSelector

New Orleans or Prague?

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.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money 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 OrleansPrague
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
New OrleansPrague
Score390
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km37
Coast distance21 km10,000 km
Water distance17 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 14 points.14
New OrleansPrague
Score6175
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8031,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2529
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 27 points.27
New OrleansPrague
Score4572
Museums within 10 km42138
Museums within 2 km of centre30100
Share of museums within 2 km %7172
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Prague leads by 23 points.23
New OrleansPrague
Score5477
Drinking venues within 4 km7042,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4951,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7065
Nightclubs within 4 km41123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 20 points.20
New OrleansPrague
Score2545
Protected land share 50 km %412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 29 points.29
New OrleansPrague
Score4675
Tourist attractions within 2 km2254
Park area within 2 km43 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 36 points.36
New OrleansPrague
Score4076
Notable places within 2 km40310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 32 points.32
New OrleansPrague
Score4375
Price level global10055.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 7 points.7
New OrleansPrague
Score6861
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months07
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

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). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansPrague
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 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 OrleansPrague
Official languageCzech
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Czech Koruna (CZK)
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 m235 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansPrague
City population383,9971,397,880
People per km²4232,817
Museums within 10 km1688
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3989
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.