VacationSelector

New Orleans or San Sebastian?

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 good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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 OrleansSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 16 points.16
New OrleansSan Sebastian
Score3955
Swim season months72
Beaches 10 km310
Coast distance21 km0 km
Water distance17 km0 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 6 points.6
New OrleansSan Sebastian
Score6155
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2526
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 6 points.6
New OrleansSan Sebastian
Score4539
Museums within 10 km4217
Museums within 2 km of centre307
Share of museums within 2 km %7141
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 14 points.14
New OrleansSan Sebastian
Score5440
Drinking venues within 4 km704388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7087
Nightclubs within 4 km4112
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 31 points.31
New OrleansSan Sebastian
Score2556
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8952
Park area within 2 km43 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 16 points.16
New OrleansSan Sebastian
Score4630
Tourist attractions within 2 km225
Park area within 2 km43 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 14 points.14
New OrleansSan Sebastian
Score4054
Notable places within 2 km4089
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 28 points.28
New OrleansSan Sebastian
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 10 points.10
New OrleansSan Sebastian
Score6858
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months00
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
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3

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). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansSan Sebastian
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 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 OrleansSan Sebastian
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation-2 m6 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansSan Sebastian
City population383,997189,866
People per km²4233,118
Museums within 10 km1614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3945
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months2 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.