VacationSelector

Orlando or Rotterdam?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming 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.

OrlandoRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
OrlandoRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance68 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 24 points.24
OrlandoRotterdam
Score4872
Restaurants within 2 km of centre365862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2146
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 52 points.52
OrlandoRotterdam
Score860
Museums within 10 km1141
Museums within 2 km of centre220
Share of museums within 2 km %1849
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 8 points.8
OrlandoRotterdam
Score4149
Drinking venues within 4 km344542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6370
Nightclubs within 4 km3940
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 2 points.2
OrlandoRotterdam
Score4442
Protected land share 50 km %1510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km52 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 27 points.27
OrlandoRotterdam
Score8962
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km208
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares61 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km27
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 35 points.35
OrlandoRotterdam
Score1651
Notable places within 2 km1074
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 15 points.15
OrlandoRotterdam
Score4358
Price level global10079.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 18 points.18
OrlandoRotterdam
Score7456
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Orlando
No sunshine record
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoRotterdam
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
San JoseSJO
3 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureOrlandoRotterdam
Official languageDutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 911
Elevation34 m10 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoRotterdam
City population334,854664,311
People per km²1,0862,080
Museums within 10 km1140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3077
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.