New Orleans per diem ratesLouisiana · FY 2027
No other Louisiana area has a higher full-year average lodging cap; next comes Alexandria / Leesville / Natchitoches ($118). New Orleans’s high season has shifted: in FY 2021 it ran January to May, now February to May.
New Orleans among the 295
New Orleans’s Feb–May peak lodging cap of $188 ranks 100th among the peak caps of the 295 areas, between Quincy (MA) and Pensacola (FL). Pittsfield (MA) has exactly the same peak cap. Nationally, New Orleans is 86th of 295 by full-year average, between Fort Myers (FL, $165) and Montrose (CO, $164).
New Orleans since FY 2021
Since FY 2021 New Orleans’s full-year average has grown 13.4%; ranked by that growth, New Orleans sits between Clackamas (OR) and Boston / Cambridge (MA). Against FY 2026, New Orleans’s full-year average rose 4%, between East St. Louis / O’Fallon / Fairview Heights (IL) and Sacramento (CA) among year-on-year changes. In FY 2021 New Orleans ranked 68th of 293 by full-year average, between Bar Harbor / Rockport (ME) and Richmond (VA). Along the way: flat in FY 2023, down 3.8% in FY 2025.
| Months | Cap | Nights |
|---|---|---|
| October to January | $162 | 123 |
| February to May | $188 | 120 |
| June to August | $138 | 92 |
| September | $162 | 30 |
Four days in February
Monday, February 1, 2027, to Thursday: up to $844, three nights at the February cap plus $280 M&IE. Starting June 7 instead, in a low month, the same trip comes to $694.
Weighted by days, the cap sits 45.6% above the standard rate over the year.