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Cairo or Orlando?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
Orlando

Photo: Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Cairo
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Orlando
44
match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

CairoOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Orlando leads by 32 points.32
Food & drink. Cairo leads by 12 points.12
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 74 points.74
Nightlife. Cairo leads by 8 points.8
Nature & outdoors. Orlando leads by 16 points.16
Day trips. Cairo leads by 8 points.8
Good for families. Orlando leads by 66 points.66
Getting around. Cairo leads by 27 points.27
Shopping & style. Cairo and Orlando are level on 58.
Affordability. Cairo leads by 59 points.59
Live music & performing arts. Cairo leads by 10 points.10
Wellness & relaxation. Orlando leads by 17 points.17
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and Orlando.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyCairoOrlando
Daytime high36 °C33 °C
Night-time low23 °C23 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm189 mm
Sunshine12 hours a dayNo figure
Daylight14 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Rainfall, mm
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7
Orlando
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCairoOrlando
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
11 h 15 m
€624-1013
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 30 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
11 h 40 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
15 h 5 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 15 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
3 h 30 m
€262-290
CAI · 17 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 25 m
€249-480
CAI · 17 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 55 m
€267-300
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 128 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
CAI · 17 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureCairoOrlando
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation23 m34 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairoOrlando
City population9,801,536334,854
People per km²18,5641,086
Museums within 10 km4811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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Sources

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). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.