VacationSelector

Dubai or Orlando?

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

Your match

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
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.

DubaiOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 100 points.100
DubaiOrlando
Score1000
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km521
Coast distance0 km68 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 18 points.18
DubaiOrlando
Score6648
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2621
Museums & heritage. Dubai leads by 30 points.30
DubaiOrlando
Score388
Museums within 10 km2611
Museums within 2 km of centre182
Share of museums within 2 km %6918
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 12 points.12
DubaiOrlando
Score5341
Drinking venues within 4 km601344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5163
Nightclubs within 4 km8439
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 26 points.26
DubaiOrlando
Score1844
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 40 points.40
DubaiOrlando
Score4989
Tourist attractions within 2 km37
Park area within 2 km13 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km420
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Dubai leads by 21 points.21
DubaiOrlando
Score3716
Notable places within 2 km3310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 26 points.26
DubaiOrlando
Score6943
Price level global63.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 8 points.8
DubaiOrlando
Score6674
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm46 mm to 203 mm
Dry months120
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiOrlando
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 40 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
14 h 0 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 25 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
BostonBOS, PSM
13 h 15 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€176-244
MCO · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
14 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
15 h 5 m
no fares
AUH · 114 km
1 h 25 m
€32-127
MCO · 14 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
15 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€195-271
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 0 m
no fares
DXB · 7 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 2026-09 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

MeasureDubaiOrlando
Official languageArabic
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m34 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiOrlando
City population3,944,751334,854
People per km²1,086
Museums within 10 km1411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5230
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.