VacationSelector

New Orleans or Toulouse?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

New OrleansToulouse
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
New OrleansToulouse
Score390
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance21 km145 km
Water distance17 km—
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 9 points.9
New OrleansToulouse
Score6170
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2537
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 6 points.6
New OrleansToulouse
Score4551
Museums within 10 km4227
Museums within 2 km of centre3018
Share of museums within 2 km %7167
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 11 points.11
New OrleansToulouse
Score5443
Drinking venues within 4 km704389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7088
Nightclubs within 4 km4136
Nature & day trips. New Orleans leads by 4 points.4
New OrleansToulouse
Score2521
Protected land share 50 km %41
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 20 points.20
New OrleansToulouse
Score4666
Tourist attractions within 2 km2280
Park area within 2 km43 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 11 points.11
New OrleansToulouse
Score4051
Notable places within 2 km4072
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 19 points.19
New OrleansToulouse
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget—€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 3 points.3
New OrleansToulouse
Score6871
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months01
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
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
Toulouse
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
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). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansToulouse
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 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.

Before you go

MeasureNew OrleansToulouse
Official language–French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation-2 m115 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansToulouse
City population383,997514,819
People per km²4234,352
Museums within 10 km1624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre39101
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.