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The Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Madrid 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 Madrid for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Orlando for

  • beaches
  • 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. Madrid 5, Orlando 42: Orlando leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Madrid 80, Orlando 48: Madrid leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Madrid 86, Orlando 22: Madrid leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Madrid 85, Orlando 40: Madrid leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Madrid 60, Orlando 46: Madrid leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Madrid 89, Orlando 58: Madrid leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Madrid 68, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Madrid 84, Orlando 8: Madrid leads by 76 points.
Shopping & style. Madrid 75, Orlando 58: Madrid leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Madrid 50, Orlando 36: Madrid leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Madrid 77, Orlando 40: Madrid leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Madrid 36, Orlando 32: Madrid leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Madrid and Orlando.

Your match

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

Madrid
Best match
66match

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

Orlando
44match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Orlando in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMadridOrlando
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation663 m34 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridOrlando
City population3,506,730334,854
People per km²5,8011,086
Museums within 10 km8811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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. 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.