VacationSelector

New Orleans or Siena?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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 OrleansSiena
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
New OrleansSiena
Score390
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance21 km64 km
Water distance17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 29 points.29
New OrleansSiena
Score6132
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2511
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 26 points.26
New OrleansSiena
Score4571
Museums within 10 km4255
Museums within 2 km of centre3051
Share of museums within 2 km %7193
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 37 points.37
New OrleansSiena
Score5417
Drinking venues within 4 km704142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7084
Nightclubs within 4 km411
Nature & day trips. New Orleans leads by 6 points.6
New OrleansSiena
Score2519
Protected land share 50 km %43
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 15 points.15
New OrleansSiena
Score4631
Tourist attractions within 2 km2213
Park area within 2 km43 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 10 points.10
New OrleansSiena
Score4050
Notable places within 2 km4069
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 25 points.25
New OrleansSiena
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 4 points.4
New OrleansSiena
Score6864
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm49 mm to 136 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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

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). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansSiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 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 2026-09 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 OrleansSiena
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation-2 m322 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansSiena
City population383,99752,812
People per km²423446
Museums within 10 km1629
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3925
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. 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.