VacationSelector

New Orleans or Sorrento?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 OrleansSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 38 points.38
New OrleansSorrento
Score3977
Swim season months75
Beaches 10 km378
Coast distance21 km0 km
Water distance17 km0 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 42 points.42
New OrleansSorrento
Score6119
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km255
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 8 points.8
New OrleansSorrento
Score4537
Museums within 10 km427
Museums within 2 km of centre304
Share of museums within 2 km %7157
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 32 points.32
New OrleansSorrento
Score5422
Drinking venues within 4 km704179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7073
Nightclubs within 4 km412
Nature & day trips. New Orleans leads by 2 points.2
New OrleansSorrento
Score2523
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8942
Park area within 2 km43 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 41 points.41
New OrleansSorrento
Score465
Tourist attractions within 2 km222
Park area within 2 km43 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. New Orleans leads by 30 points.30
New OrleansSorrento
Score4010
Notable places within 2 km407
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 25 points.25
New OrleansSorrento
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 5 points.5
New OrleansSorrento
Score6873
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months03
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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4

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). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansSorrento
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 30 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 OrleansSorrento
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 m50 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansSorrento
City population383,99715,407
People per km²4231,541
Museums within 10 km165
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3911
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 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.