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Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Medellin 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 Medellin for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Orlando for

  • families
  • beaches
  • shopping

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. Medellin 5, Orlando 42: Orlando leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Medellin 58, Orlando 48: Medellin leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Medellin 42, Orlando 22: Medellin leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Medellin 76, Orlando 40: Medellin leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Medellin 66, Orlando 46: Medellin leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Medellin and Orlando are level on 58.
Good for families. Medellin 50, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 48 points.
Getting around. Medellin 55, Orlando 8: Medellin leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Medellin 45, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Medellin 80, Orlando 36: Medellin leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Medellin 42, Orlando 40: Medellin leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Medellin 30, Orlando 32: Orlando leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Medellin and Orlando.

Your match

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

Medellin
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

Orlando
44match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Medellin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
133 mmrain in the month
12 hdaylight a day

Orlando in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Medellin has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Medellin: 1958-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Medellin / Olaya Herrera (5.2 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMedellinOrlando
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number123911
Elevation1,405 m34 m
Main airportJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMedellinOrlando
City population2,529,403334,854
People per km²6,6441,086
Museums within 10 km1411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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). 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.