VacationSelector

New Orleans or Tallinn?

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 year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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 OrleansTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 15 points.15
New OrleansTallinn
Score3954
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km318
Coast distance21 km0 km
Water distance17 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 1 points.1
New OrleansTallinn
Score6162
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2539
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 17 points.17
New OrleansTallinn
Score4562
Museums within 10 km4271
Museums within 2 km of centre3057
Share of museums within 2 km %7180
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 8 points.8
New OrleansTallinn
Score5446
Drinking venues within 4 km704462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7080
Nightclubs within 4 km4143
Nature & day trips. Tallinn leads by 6 points.6
New OrleansTallinn
Score2531
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8953
Park area within 2 km43 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 5 points.5
New OrleansTallinn
Score4651
Tourist attractions within 2 km2220
Park area within 2 km43 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 22 points.22
New OrleansTallinn
Score4062
Notable places within 2 km40135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 27 points.27
New OrleansTallinn
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget€143
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 20 points.20
New OrleansTallinn
Score6848
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm34 mm to 83 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
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
3
1
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). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansTallinn
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
1 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
1 h 55 m
€178-367
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
4 h 35 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
HEL · 99 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 OrleansTallinn
Official languageEstonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation-2 m28 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansTallinn
City population383,997457,572
People per km²4232,871
Museums within 10 km1615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3963
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 monthsNone

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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.