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The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

New Orleans or Saint-Tropez?

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
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’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, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. New Orleans 84, Saint-Tropez 48: New Orleans leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. New Orleans 67, Saint-Tropez 35: New Orleans leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. New Orleans 85, Saint-Tropez 60: New Orleans leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. New Orleans 42, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 30 points.
Day trips. New Orleans 52, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 5 points.
Good for families. New Orleans 55, Saint-Tropez 42: New Orleans leads by 13 points.
Getting around. New Orleans 55, Saint-Tropez 32: New Orleans leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. New Orleans 54, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Affordability. New Orleans 40, Saint-Tropez 8: New Orleans leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. New Orleans 80, Saint-Tropez 18: New Orleans leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. New Orleans 25, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: New Orleans and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches 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

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Saint-Tropez has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNew OrleansSaint-Tropez
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation-2 m0 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansSaint-Tropez
City population383,9973,582
People per km²423320
Museums within 10 km164
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months3 months

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.