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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Lisbon 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 Lisbon for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Orlando for

  • 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. Lisbon 50, Orlando 42: Lisbon leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Orlando 48: Lisbon leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Orlando 22: Lisbon leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Orlando 40: Lisbon leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Orlando 46: Lisbon leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Orlando 58: Lisbon leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Lisbon 62, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Orlando 8: Lisbon leads by 58 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Orlando 58: Lisbon leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Orlando 36: Lisbon leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Orlando 40: Lisbon leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Orlando 32: Lisbon leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Orlando.

Your match

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

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Orlando
44match

Wins on families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Orlando in July

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

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonOrlando
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
Elevation100 m34 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonOrlando
City population545,796334,854
People per km²5,4531,086
Museums within 10 km8011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

Where else could you go?

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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). 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.