VacationSelector

New Orleans or Tirana?

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 beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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 OrleansTirana
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 22 points.22
New OrleansTirana
Score3917
Swim season months75
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance21 km26 km
Water distance17 km26 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 6 points.6
New OrleansTirana
Score6155
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2522
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 20 points.20
New OrleansTirana
Score4525
Museums within 10 km4212
Museums within 2 km of centre308
Share of museums within 2 km %7167
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 4 points.4
New OrleansTirana
Score5458
Drinking venues within 4 km704945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7072
Nightclubs within 4 km4129
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 24 points.24
New OrleansTirana
Score2549
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %8983
Park area within 2 km43 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 6 points.6
New OrleansTirana
Score4652
Tourist attractions within 2 km2221
Park area within 2 km43 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 13 points.13
New OrleansTirana
Score4053
Notable places within 2 km4083
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 41 points.41
New OrleansTirana
Score4384
Price level global10042.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 1 points.1
New OrleansTirana
Score6867
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months00
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
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
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). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 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 OrleansTirana
Official languageAlbanian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Lek (ALL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation-2 m110 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansTirana
City population383,997389,323
People per km²4239,314
Museums within 10 km1611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3946
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.