VacationSelector

Cork or Orlando?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cork
38
match

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

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

CorkOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
CorkOrlando
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance3 km68 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Cork leads by 2 points.2
CorkOrlando
Score5048
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3521
Museums & heritage. Cork leads by 15 points.15
CorkOrlando
Score238
Museums within 10 km1011
Museums within 2 km of centre82
Share of museums within 2 km %8018
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Orlando leads by 3 points.3
CorkOrlando
Score3841
Drinking venues within 4 km361344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8163
Nightclubs within 4 km939
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 8 points.8
CorkOrlando
Score5244
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %74100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 62 points.62
CorkOrlando
Score2789
Tourist attractions within 2 km7
Park area within 2 km48 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km020
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Cork leads by 6 points.6
CorkOrlando
Score2216
Notable places within 2 km1410
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cork leads by 14 points.14
CorkOrlando
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 25 points.25
CorkOrlando
Score4974
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
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
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Orlando
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkOrlando
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 45 m
€176-244
MCO · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
9 h 40 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

MeasureCorkOrlando
Official languageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m34 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkOrlando
City population222,333334,854
People per km²5,9611,086
Museums within 10 km511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4930
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.