VacationSelector

New Orleans or Seoul?

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.

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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 OrleansSeoul
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 24 points.24
New OrleansSeoul
Score3915
Swim season months72
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance21 km28 km
Water distance17 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 24 points.24
New OrleansSeoul
Score6185
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8033,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2532
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 38 points.38
New OrleansSeoul
Score4583
Museums within 10 km42203
Museums within 2 km of centre3090
Share of museums within 2 km %7144
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 26 points.26
New OrleansSeoul
Score5480
Drinking venues within 4 km7043,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4951,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7050
Nightclubs within 4 km4129
Nature & day trips. Seoul leads by 7 points.7
New OrleansSeoul
Score2532
Protected land share 50 km %41
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8995
Park area within 2 km43 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 33 points.33
New OrleansSeoul
Score4679
Tourist attractions within 2 km2262
Park area within 2 km43 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 19 points.19
New OrleansSeoul
Score4059
Notable places within 2 km40118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 29 points.29
New OrleansSeoul
Score4372
Price level global10059.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 7 points.7
New OrleansSeoul
Score6861
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm18 mm to 422 mm
Dry months04
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
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
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). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansSeoul
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
13 h 50 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
12 h 0 m
€637-697
ICN · 49 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
San FranciscoSFO
4 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
11 h 20 m
€560-734
ICN · 49 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
4 h 35 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
BostonBOS, PSM
3 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 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 OrleansSeoul
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Won (KRW)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation-2 m38 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansSeoul
City population383,9979,668,465
People per km²42315,973
Museums within 10 km1680
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre39156
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. 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.