VacationSelector

Malaga or Orlando?

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

Your match

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MalagaOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 66 points.66
MalagaOrlando
Score660
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km211
Coast distance0 km68 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 21 points.21
MalagaOrlando
Score6948
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,002365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3421
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 45 points.45
MalagaOrlando
Score538
Museums within 10 km4011
Museums within 2 km of centre352
Share of museums within 2 km %8818
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 13 points.13
MalagaOrlando
Score5441
Drinking venues within 4 km715344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre486216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6863
Nightclubs within 4 km4539
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 1 points.1
MalagaOrlando
Score4344
Protected land share 50 km %715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %63100
Park area within 2 km85 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 36 points.36
MalagaOrlando
Score5389
Tourist attractions within 2 km33
Park area within 2 km85 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km020
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Malaga leads by 21 points.21
MalagaOrlando
Score3716
Notable places within 2 km3310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 28 points.28
MalagaOrlando
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 8 points.8
MalagaOrlando
Score8274
Monthly daytime high17.2 °C to 31.5 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 88 mm46 mm to 203 mm
Dry months50
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
Orlando
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMalagaOrlando
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 35 m
€147-204
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 128 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
3 h 0 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

MeasureMalagaOrlando
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
Elevation18 m34 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaOrlando
City population599,063334,854
People per km²1,5171,086
Museums within 10 km3211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre6530
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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. 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. 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.