VacationSelector

Catania or Orlando?

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

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CataniaOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 58 points.58
CataniaOrlando
Score580
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km51
Coast distance1 km68 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Catania leads by 1 points.1
CataniaOrlando
Score4948
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1421
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 51 points.51
CataniaOrlando
Score598
Museums within 10 km3411
Museums within 2 km of centre272
Share of museums within 2 km %7918
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Catania leads by 6 points.6
CataniaOrlando
Score4741
Drinking venues within 4 km537344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7563
Nightclubs within 4 km1839
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 13 points.13
CataniaOrlando
Score3144
Protected land share 50 km %1015
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km11 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 53 points.53
CataniaOrlando
Score3689
Tourist attractions within 2 km25
Park area within 2 km11 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km120
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Catania leads by 23 points.23
CataniaOrlando
Score3916
Notable places within 2 km3710
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 25 points.25
CataniaOrlando
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 3 points.3
CataniaOrlando
Score7774
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm46 mm to 203 mm
Dry months50
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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
Orlando
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaOrlando
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€195-231
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
MadridMAD
2 h 35 m
€133-162
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
9 h 0 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
3 h 0 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCataniaOrlando
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m34 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaOrlando
City population311,584334,854
People per km²1,7041,086
Museums within 10 km2511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3030
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.