VacationSelector

New Orleans or Santiago de Compostela?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

New Orleans
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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 OrleansSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
New OrleansSantiago de Compostela
Score390
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance21 km26 km
Water distance17 km26 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 13 points.13
New OrleansSantiago de Compostela
Score6148
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2523
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 1 points.1
New OrleansSantiago de Compostela
Score4544
Museums within 10 km4216
Museums within 2 km of centre3014
Share of museums within 2 km %7188
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 18 points.18
New OrleansSantiago de Compostela
Score5436
Drinking venues within 4 km704306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7088
Nightclubs within 4 km4113
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 21 points.21
New OrleansSantiago de Compostela
Score2546
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8992
Park area within 2 km43 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 19 points.19
New OrleansSantiago de Compostela
Score4627
Tourist attractions within 2 km222
Park area within 2 km43 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.2
New OrleansSantiago de Compostela
Score4042
Notable places within 2 km4044
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 28 points.28
New OrleansSantiago de Compostela
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 6 points.6
New OrleansSantiago de Compostela
Score6862
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm41 mm to 223 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
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
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). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansSantiago de Compostela
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 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.

Before you go

MeasureNew OrleansSantiago de Compostela
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 m260 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansSantiago de Compostela
City population383,997100,965
People per km²423459
Museums within 10 km166
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3938
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.