VacationSelector

Faro or Orlando?

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

Your match

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

FaroOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroOrlando
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km131
Coast distance0 km68 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Orlando leads by 4 points.4
FaroOrlando
Score4448
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2221
Museums & heritage. Faro leads by 14 points.14
FaroOrlando
Score228
Museums within 10 km911
Museums within 2 km of centre82
Share of museums within 2 km %8918
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Orlando leads by 20 points.20
FaroOrlando
Score2141
Drinking venues within 4 km143344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8663
Nightclubs within 4 km839
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 13 points.13
FaroOrlando
Score5744
Protected land share 50 km %1115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 53 points.53
FaroOrlando
Score3689
Tourist attractions within 2 km10
Park area within 2 km34 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km220
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Faro leads by 6 points.6
FaroOrlando
Score2216
Notable places within 2 km1410
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 31 points.31
FaroOrlando
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 9 points.9
FaroOrlando
Score8374
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm46 mm to 203 mm
Dry months60
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Orlando
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroOrlando
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
EdinburghEDI
3 h 10 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
10 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

MeasureFaroOrlando
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m34 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroOrlando
City population64,560334,854
People per km²3191,086
Museums within 10 km211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3430
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.