VacationSelector

Orlando or Palermo?

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 and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

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

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

OrlandoPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
OrlandoPalermo
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance68 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 2 points.2
OrlandoPalermo
Score4850
Restaurants within 2 km of centre365807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2113
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 42 points.42
OrlandoPalermo
Score850
Museums within 10 km1132
Museums within 2 km of centre226
Share of museums within 2 km %1881
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 12 points.12
OrlandoPalermo
Score4153
Drinking venues within 4 km344799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6364
Nightclubs within 4 km3916
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 8 points.8
OrlandoPalermo
Score4436
Protected land share 50 km %154
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km52 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 48 points.48
OrlandoPalermo
Score8941
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km200
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares63 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km16
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 41 points.41
OrlandoPalermo
Score1657
Notable places within 2 km10104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 25 points.25
OrlandoPalermo
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 3 points.3
OrlandoPalermo
Score7477
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months07
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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Orlando
No sunshine record
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoPalermo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 128 km
1 h 55 m
€161-283
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
MunichMUC
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
MadridMAD
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€92-140
1 stop
PMO · 25 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

MeasureOrlandoPalermo
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m14 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoPalermo
City population334,854630,167
People per km²1,0863,924
Museums within 10 km1142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3033
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.