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The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi
The old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds

Photos: New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0; Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

New Orleans or Sapporo?

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
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’s own page.

Choose Sapporo for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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, Sapporo 28: Sapporo leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. New Orleans 84, Sapporo 80: New Orleans leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. New Orleans 67, Sapporo 40: New Orleans leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. New Orleans 85, Sapporo 62: New Orleans leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. New Orleans 42, Sapporo 86: Sapporo leads by 44 points.
Day trips. New Orleans 52, Sapporo 64: Sapporo leads by 12 points.
Good for families. New Orleans 55, Sapporo 72: Sapporo leads by 17 points.
Getting around. New Orleans 55, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. New Orleans 54, Sapporo 58: Sapporo leads by 4 points.
Affordability. New Orleans 40, Sapporo 60: Sapporo leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. New Orleans 80, Sapporo 44: New Orleans leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. New Orleans 25, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 55 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: New Orleans and Sapporo.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre). Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNew OrleansSapporo
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation-2 m5 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinationsNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansSapporo
City population383,9971,959,313
People per km²4231,747
Museums within 10 km1633
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months1 month

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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. 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.