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The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

New Orleans or Yokohama?

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

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. New Orleans 84, Yokohama 72: New Orleans leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. New Orleans 67, Yokohama 55: New Orleans leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. New Orleans 85, Yokohama 44: New Orleans leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. New Orleans 42, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Day trips. New Orleans 52, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Good for families. New Orleans 55, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 31 points.
Getting around. New Orleans 55, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. New Orleans 54, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Affordability. New Orleans 40, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. New Orleans 80, Yokohama 56: New Orleans leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. New Orleans 25, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: New Orleans and Yokohama.

Your match

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

New Orleans
54match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNew OrleansYokohama
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 m24 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 OrleansYokohama
City population383,9973,757,630
People per km²4238,585
Museums within 10 km1638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 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.