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New Orleans or Thessaloniki?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
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 OrleansThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 16 points.16
New OrleansThessaloniki
Score3955
Swim season months75
Beaches 10 km34
Coast distance21 km0 km
Water distance17 km0 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 11 points.11
New OrleansThessaloniki
Score6150
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2515
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
New OrleansThessaloniki
Score4549
Museums within 10 km4234
Museums within 2 km of centre3022
Share of museums within 2 km %7165
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 13 points.13
New OrleansThessaloniki
Score5467
Drinking venues within 4 km7041,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7057
Nightclubs within 4 km4161
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 40 points.40
New OrleansThessaloniki
Score2565
Protected land share 50 km %425
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8983
Park area within 2 km43 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 5 points.5
New OrleansThessaloniki
Score4641
Tourist attractions within 2 km2216
Park area within 2 km43 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 16 points.16
New OrleansThessaloniki
Score4056
Notable places within 2 km4098
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 31 points.31
New OrleansThessaloniki
Score4374
Price level global10055.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
New OrleansThessaloniki
Score6872
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansThessaloniki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 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 OrleansThessaloniki
Official languageGreek
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 m6 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansThessaloniki
City population383,997309,617
People per km²42316,042
Museums within 10 km1631
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3945
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.