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The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Keystone 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 Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Orlando for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • families

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. Keystone 5, Orlando 42: Orlando leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Keystone 27, Orlando 48: Orlando leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Keystone 7, Orlando 22: Orlando leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Keystone 12, Orlando 40: Orlando leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Keystone 93, Orlando 46: Keystone leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Keystone 55, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Keystone 66, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Keystone 50, Orlando 8: Keystone leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Keystone 22, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Keystone 12, Orlando 36: Orlando leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Keystone 22, Orlando 40: Orlando leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Keystone and Orlando are level on 32.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Keystone and Orlando.

Your match

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

Keystone
34match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Orlando
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Orlando in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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. Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKeystoneOrlando
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,796 m34 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKeystoneOrlando
City population1,369334,854
People per km²131,086
Museums within 10 km011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.