VacationSelector

Orlando or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families with your weighting.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

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

What matters to you?

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

The verdict

Choose Los Angeles if you want museums, a centre where the sights sit within walking distance, and a wide choice of restaurants and bars, with mild days of 19-25°C right through the year.

Choose Orlando if the trip is about children: 20 theme parks within reach against Los Angeles's 2, and far more park space near the centre, with hot, wet summers as the price.

Scoreboard

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

OrlandoLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
OrlandoLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance68 km—
Water distance——
Beaches 25 km—11
Warmest sea temp—20.2 °C
Scoring variant—beachScoreWideRing
Declared—2026-08-25
Register—seed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 18 points.18
OrlandoLos Angeles
Score4866
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3651,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2122
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 41 points.41
OrlandoLos Angeles
Score849
Museums within 10 km1169
Museums within 2 km of centre223
Share of museums within 2 km %1833
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 13 points.13
OrlandoLos Angeles
Score4154
Drinking venues within 4 km344660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6365
Nightclubs within 4 km3964
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 18 points.18
OrlandoLos Angeles
Score4462
Protected land share 50 km %1526
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km52 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 56 points.56
OrlandoLos Angeles
Score8933
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853—
Theme parks within 30 km202
Zoo aquarium 15 km2—
Park area within 2 km52 hectares20 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed—
Declared2026-08-25—
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json—
Tourist attractions within 2 km—11
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 38 points.38
OrlandoLos Angeles
Score1654
Notable places within 2 km1088
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Orlando and Los Angeles are level on 43.
OrlandoLos Angeles
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 13 points.13
OrlandoLos Angeles
Score7487
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months08
0255075100

Where they differ

Los Angeles has many times as many museums as Orlando and one UNESCO-listed place within day-trip reach, where Orlando has none. Its notable places sit within walking distance of the centre, so days work without a car, and there are about three times as many restaurants near the centre.

Orlando has 20 theme parks within reach against Los Angeles's 2, and about three times as much park space near the centre. It has a beach nearby where Los Angeles has none, though neither reaches sea of 21°C or more.

Where they are alike

In both, the bars and clubs sit near the centre, so an evening out is walkable rather than spread across the suburbs; Los Angeles simply has about twice as many of them.

They also match on kitchens and on water: a similar range of cuisines in both, and neither has a month with sea at 21°C or more. Both stay warm year round, Los Angeles at 19-25°C, Orlando at 22-33°C, and both have protected land nearby.

Which traveller are you?

Travelling with children: Orlando, and not narrowly. 20 theme parks within reach against Los Angeles's 2, plus far more park space near the centre, is a case Los Angeles cannot match.

Museum-goers and walkers: Los Angeles, which has many times as many museums, a UNESCO-listed place within day-trip reach, sights close enough together to cover on foot, and about three times as many restaurants near the centre.

Anyone chasing warmth in midwinter: Orlando, whose winter highs of 22-26°C sit above Los Angeles's 19°C, with less rain too, though museums and walkable sights are thin there.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value figure is a national price level applied to both cities, so it carries no information about the difference between them. No daily budget figure exists for either, which means no cost comparison here is possible at all.

No weather station near either city records sunshine hours, so that side of the comparison is unmeasured rather than poor, and the monthly ratings rest on temperature, rainfall and sea temperature alone. Orlando's year-round warmth also hides its summer, when 33°C arrives with 189-203mm of rain a month, and although Orlando counts a beach nearby, neither city reaches sea of 21°C or more.

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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Los Angeles peaks from July to October, with highs of 24-25°C, sea at 20°C and monthly rainfall of 13mm or less. December to February is cooler, near 19°C, and takes most of the year's rain.

Orlando is better in the opposite half of the year, November to March, when highs run 22-26°C and rain stays around 46-77mm. Summer brings 33°C with 189-203mm a month, so afternoons are hot and wet, and the cooler months are the drier ones there.

Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoLos Angeles
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
Las VegasLAS
4 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
4 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
5 h 0 m
€196-293
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
Salt Lake CitySLC
4 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
San JoseSJO
3 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 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

MeasureOrlandoLos Angeles
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation34 m106 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoLos Angeles
City population334,8543,898,747
People per km²1,0862,994
Museums within 10 km1138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3046
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.