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The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Essaouira or Orlando?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Essaouira for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Essaouira’s own page.

Choose Orlando for

  • families
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Orlando’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Essaouira 47, Orlando 42: Essaouira leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Essaouira 44, Orlando 48: Orlando leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Essaouira 48, Orlando 22: Essaouira leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Essaouira 14, Orlando 40: Orlando leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Essaouira 57, Orlando 46: Essaouira leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Essaouira 17, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Essaouira 42, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 56 points.
Getting around. Essaouira 58, Orlando 8: Essaouira leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Essaouira 44, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Essaouira 74, Orlando 36: Essaouira leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Essaouira 28, Orlando 40: Orlando leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Essaouira 66, Orlando 32: Essaouira leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Essaouira and Orlando.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Essaouira
45match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

Orlando
44match

Wins on families and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Orlando in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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EssaouiraOrlando

Where the figures come from

Essaouira has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEssaouiraOrlando
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation11 m34 m
Main airportEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureEssaouiraOrlando
City population82,962334,854
People per km²16,5921,086
Museums within 10 km211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.