VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Orlando?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

AmsterdamOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamOrlando
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km331
Coast distance24 km68 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 35 points.35
AmsterdamOrlando
Score8348
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4421
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 72 points.72
AmsterdamOrlando
Score808
Museums within 10 km9811
Museums within 2 km of centre692
Share of museums within 2 km %7018
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 29 points.29
AmsterdamOrlando
Score7041
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7063
Nightclubs within 4 km11439
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 16 points.16
AmsterdamOrlando
Score6044
Protected land share 50 km %2115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 21 points.21
AmsterdamOrlando
Score6889
Tourist attractions within 2 km74
Park area within 2 km49 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km320
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 52 points.52
AmsterdamOrlando
Score6816
Notable places within 2 km19610
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Amsterdam leads by 15 points.15
AmsterdamOrlando
Score5843
Price level global79.2100
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 17 points.17
AmsterdamOrlando
Score5774
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm46 mm to 203 mm
Dry months00
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Orlando
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamOrlando
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
MinneapolisMSP, STP
8 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€32-127
MCO · 14 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
San JoseSJO
11 h 20 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 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. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAmsterdamOrlando
Official languageDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911911
Elevation-2 m34 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamOrlando
City population921,468334,854
People per km²4,2081,086
Museums within 10 km10111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre9830
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.