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The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

New Orleans or Tokyo?

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

New Orleans does not lead in any category we score.

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Tokyo leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. New Orleans 84, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. New Orleans 67, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. New Orleans 85, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. New Orleans 42, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 26 points.
Day trips. New Orleans 52, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 33 points.
Good for families. New Orleans 55, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Getting around. New Orleans 55, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. New Orleans 54, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 45 points.
Affordability. New Orleans 40, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. New Orleans 80, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. New Orleans 25, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 53 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: New Orleans and Tokyo.

Your match

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

New Orleans
54match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on wellness and shopping 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
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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New OrleansTokyo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNew OrleansTokyo
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation-2 m6 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansTokyo
City population383,99714,264,798
People per km²4236,501
Museums within 10 km16192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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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.