VacationSelector

Lucerne or Orlando?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

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

Orlando
✓ Best match
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.

LucerneOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Lucerne and Orlando are level on 0.
LucerneOrlando
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km161
Coast distance669 km68 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Orlando leads by 1 points.1
LucerneOrlando
Score4748
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2521
Museums & heritage. Lucerne leads by 32 points.32
LucerneOrlando
Score408
Museums within 10 km2311
Museums within 2 km of centre132
Share of museums within 2 km %5718
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Orlando leads by 13 points.13
LucerneOrlando
Score2841
Drinking venues within 4 km202344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7563
Nightclubs within 4 km1139
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 19 points.19
LucerneOrlando
Score2544
Protected land share 50 km %715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 51 points.51
LucerneOrlando
Score3889
Tourist attractions within 2 km15
Park area within 2 km29 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km120
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Lucerne leads by 19 points.19
LucerneOrlando
Score3516
Notable places within 2 km2910
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Orlando leads by 8 points.8
LucerneOrlando
Score3543
Price level global110.5100
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 21 points.21
LucerneOrlando
Score5374
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 mm46 mm to 203 mm
Dry months00
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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
Orlando
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLucerneOrlando
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
San JoseSJO
11 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
14 h 25 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

MeasureLucerneOrlando
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation436 m34 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneOrlando
City population86,234334,854
People per km²2,9631,086
Museums within 10 km1411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4630

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.