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New Orleans is at its best for festivals & events in February and April to May. Good but not prime in March, October and December.
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City & Culture | 50 | 74 | 91 | 91 | 60 | 17 | 12 | 14 | 34 | 89 | 91 | 74 |
| Festivals & Events | 21 | 94 | 67 | 93 | 86 | 37 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 68 | 47 | 66 |
No reliable monthly crowd data for this destination — the proxy used elsewhere did not pass its checks here, so nothing is shown rather than a guess.
Swipe the table sideways for the rest of the year.
A city built on a festival calendar as much as a weather one — Mardi Gras moves with Easter, Jazz Fest is late April into May, and August is 33°C and humid with hurricane season on top
Mid-August to mid-October. The humidity is genuinely oppressive, it is the peak of hurricane season, and the city empties from June for good reason.
Mardi Gras week — February or early March, moving with Easter — and the two Jazz Fest weekends in late April and early May, when rates climb steeply
The French Quarter after dark is an adult city, and Bourbon Street is emphatically so. Daytime — the streetcars, City Park, the Audubon Zoo — is easy and cheap.
The French Quarter is convenient and loud. The Garden District and the Marigny are quieter, prettier and cheaper, and the streetcar makes them easy — book close to a year out for Mardi Gras, when parades limit the streetcars and walking is better.
Katrina is the reference point and the city plans around the season. August and September carry real cancellation risk.Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct
34°C at 90% humidity. The locals stay indoors and the rates drop accordingly.Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep
Kept out of the score on purpose. Averaging a rare catastrophe into a monthly number would tell you something false; the warning is the honest form.