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The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

New Orleans or Tel Aviv?

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

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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, Tel Aviv 86: Tel Aviv leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. New Orleans 84, Tel Aviv 80: New Orleans leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. New Orleans 67, Tel Aviv 57: New Orleans leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. New Orleans 85, Tel Aviv 82: New Orleans leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. New Orleans 42, Tel Aviv 52: Tel Aviv leads by 10 points.
Day trips. New Orleans 52, Tel Aviv 84: Tel Aviv leads by 32 points.
Good for families. New Orleans 55, Tel Aviv 68: Tel Aviv leads by 13 points.
Getting around. New Orleans 55, Tel Aviv 64: Tel Aviv leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. New Orleans 54, Tel Aviv 55: Tel Aviv leads by 1 points.
Affordability. New Orleans 40, Tel Aviv 14: New Orleans leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. New Orleans 80, Tel Aviv 70: New Orleans leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. New Orleans 25, Tel Aviv 35: Tel Aviv 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 Tel Aviv.

Your match

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

New Orleans
54match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Tel Aviv
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNew OrleansTel Aviv
Official language-Hebrew
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 100, fire 102
Elevation-2 m5 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansTel Aviv
City population383,997467,875
People per km²4238,998
Museums within 10 km1698
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months7 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.