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Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Oaxaca 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 Oaxaca for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Orlando for

  • families
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

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. Oaxaca 5, Orlando 42: Orlando leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Oaxaca 84, Orlando 48: Oaxaca leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Oaxaca 74, Orlando 22: Oaxaca leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Oaxaca and Orlando are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Oaxaca 62, Orlando 46: Oaxaca leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Oaxaca 65, Orlando 58: Oaxaca leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Oaxaca 40, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 58 points.
Getting around. Oaxaca 55, Orlando 8: Oaxaca leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Oaxaca 62, Orlando 58: Oaxaca leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Oaxaca 77, Orlando 36: Oaxaca leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oaxaca 38, Orlando 40: Orlando leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oaxaca 50, Orlando 32: Oaxaca leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Oaxaca and Orlando.

Your match

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

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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.

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 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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OaxacaOrlando

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOaxacaOrlando
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,555 m34 m
Main airportXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOaxacaOrlando
City population258,913334,854
People per km²3,0281,086
Museums within 10 km1011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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). 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.

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.