VacationSelector

London or Orlando?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

LondonOrlando
Beaches & swimming. London and Orlando are level on 0.
LondonOrlando
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km471
Coast distance43 km68 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 40 points.40
LondonOrlando
Score8848
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4021
Museums & heritage. London leads by 64 points.64
LondonOrlando
Score728
Museums within 10 km14811
Museums within 2 km of centre492
Share of museums within 2 km %3318
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. London leads by 54 points.54
LondonOrlando
Score9541
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4663
Nightclubs within 4 km31239
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 4 points.4
LondonOrlando
Score4044
Protected land share 50 km %1615
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 14 points.14
LondonOrlando
Score7589
Tourist attractions within 2 km85
Park area within 2 km84 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km320
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. London leads by 73 points.73
LondonOrlando
Score8916
Notable places within 2 km64910
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. London leads by 11 points.11
LondonOrlando
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 11 points.11
LondonOrlando
Score6374
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm46 mm to 203 mm
Dry months10
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Orlando
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonOrlando
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 45 m
€176-244
MCO · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
CancunCUN
10 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
7 h 20 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 20 m
€126-198
MCO · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
15 h 20 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLondonOrlando
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation4 m34 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonOrlando
City population8,799,728334,854
People per km²5,5981,086
Museums within 10 km21511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre11630

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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. 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. 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.