VacationSelector

New Orleans or Sao Paulo?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
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 OrleansSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
New OrleansSao Paulo
Score390
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance21 km51 km
Water distance17 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.12
New OrleansSao Paulo
Score6173
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8031,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2527
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 2 points.2
New OrleansSao Paulo
Score4543
Museums within 10 km4282
Museums within 2 km of centre3026
Share of museums within 2 km %7132
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.18
New OrleansSao Paulo
Score5472
Drinking venues within 4 km7041,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7051
Nightclubs within 4 km41118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 26 points.26
New OrleansSao Paulo
Score2551
Protected land share 50 km %426
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %8995
Park area within 2 km43 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 9 points.9
New OrleansSao Paulo
Score4655
Tourist attractions within 2 km2238
Park area within 2 km43 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.10
New OrleansSao Paulo
Score4050
Notable places within 2 km4068
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 38 points.38
New OrleansSao Paulo
Score4381
Price level global10046.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 15 points.15
New OrleansSao Paulo
Score6883
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months01
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
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5

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). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansSao Paulo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
1 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
1 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BostonBOS, PSM
3 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 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 OrleansSao Paulo
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation-2 m760 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansSao Paulo
City population383,99711,451,999
People per km²4237,519
Museums within 10 km1690
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3959
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. 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.