VacationSelector

Beijing or Orlando?

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

Your match

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

BeijingOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Beijing and Orlando are level on 0.
BeijingOrlando
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance145 km68 km
Water distance
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 55 points.55
BeijingOrlando
Score638
Museums within 10 km9511
Museums within 2 km of centre152
Share of museums within 2 km %1618
Unesco sites within 50 km60
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 9 points.9
BeijingOrlando
Score3544
Protected land share 50 km %315
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km143 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 12 points.12
BeijingOrlando
Score7789
Tourist attractions within 2 km41
Park area within 2 km143 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km1220
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 34 points.34
BeijingOrlando
Score5016
Notable places within 2 km6910
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 36 points.36
BeijingOrlando
Score7943
Price level global49100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 8 points.8
BeijingOrlando
Score6674
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm46 mm to 203 mm
Dry months80
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
Orlando
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingOrlando
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
13 h 45 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
12 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
BostonBOS, PSM
13 h 25 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 45 m
€176-244
MCO · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
3 h 10 m
€312-367
PEK · 25 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
21 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
8 h 45 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBeijingOrlando
Official languagePutonghua
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation43 m34 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingOrlando
City population21,893,095334,854
People per km²1,3341,086
Museums within 10 km8311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre2930

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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. 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. 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.