VacationSelector
The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro

Photos: Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License.

Orange Beach or Paris?

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 Orange Beach for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange Beach’s own page.

Choose Paris for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Paris’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. Orange Beach 86, Paris 9: Orange Beach leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Orange Beach 40, Paris 96: Paris leads by 56 points.
Culture & sights. Orange Beach 7, Paris 97: Paris leads by 90 points.
Nightlife. Orange Beach 30, Paris 80: Paris leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Orange Beach 60, Paris 52: Orange Beach leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Orange Beach 50, Paris 92: Paris leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Orange Beach 75, Paris 79: Paris leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Orange Beach 15, Paris 88: Paris leads by 73 points.
Shopping & style. Orange Beach 25, Paris 98: Paris leads by 73 points.
Affordability. Orange Beach 38, Paris 25: Orange Beach leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Orange Beach 32, Paris 88: Paris leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Orange Beach 32, Paris 40: Paris leads by 8 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Orange Beach and Paris.

Your match

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

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200250JFMAMJJASOND
Orange BeachParis

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOrange BeachParis
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
Elevation4 m27 m
Main airportPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrange BeachParis
City population8,0952,103,778
People per km²19619,960
Museums within 10 km0251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months-

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Orange Beach or Paris somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.