VacationSelector

New Orleans or Strasbourg?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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 OrleansStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
New OrleansStrasbourg
Score390
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km39
Coast distance21 km398 km
Water distance17 km
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 6 points.6
New OrleansStrasbourg
Score6167
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2536
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 4 points.4
New OrleansStrasbourg
Score4541
Museums within 10 km4223
Museums within 2 km of centre3014
Share of museums within 2 km %7161
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 18 points.18
New OrleansStrasbourg
Score5436
Drinking venues within 4 km704305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7087
Nightclubs within 4 km4117
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 29 points.29
New OrleansStrasbourg
Score2554
Protected land share 50 km %437
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 8 points.8
New OrleansStrasbourg
Score4638
Tourist attractions within 2 km229
Park area within 2 km43 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 18 points.18
New OrleansStrasbourg
Score4058
Notable places within 2 km40109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 19 points.19
New OrleansStrasbourg
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 5 points.5
New OrleansStrasbourg
Score6863
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm34 mm to 77 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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansStrasbourg
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
CancunCUN
1 h 55 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
BostonBOS, PSM
3 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 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 OrleansStrasbourg
Official languageFrench
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 m132 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansStrasbourg
City population383,997293,771
People per km²4233,752
Museums within 10 km1621
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3987
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.