VacationSelector

Cologne or Orlando?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
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.

CologneOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Orlando are level on 0.
CologneOrlando
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km401
Coast distance256 km68 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 24 points.24
CologneOrlando
Score7248
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3521
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 52 points.52
CologneOrlando
Score608
Museums within 10 km4711
Museums within 2 km of centre272
Share of museums within 2 km %5718
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 23 points.23
CologneOrlando
Score6441
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6663
Nightclubs within 4 km9039
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 27 points.27
CologneOrlando
Score7144
Protected land share 50 km %5315
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 17 points.17
CologneOrlando
Score7289
Tourist attractions within 2 km43
Park area within 2 km118 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km620
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 37 points.37
CologneOrlando
Score5316
Notable places within 2 km8110
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cologne leads by 17 points.17
CologneOrlando
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 14 points.14
CologneOrlando
Score6074
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
Orlando
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneOrlando
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Montego BayMBJ
10 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
€174-186
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 128 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 45 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 35 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
15 h 20 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

MeasureCologneOrlando
Official languageGerman
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 number112911
Elevation59 m34 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneOrlando
City population1,024,621334,854
People per km²2,5301,086
Museums within 10 km4011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre8430

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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). 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.