VacationSelector

Orlando or San Diego?

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.

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
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.

OrlandoSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 63 points.63
OrlandoSan Diego
Score063
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km142
Coast distance68 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 15 points.15
OrlandoSan Diego
Score4863
Restaurants within 2 km of centre365823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2127
Museums & heritage. San Diego leads by 36 points.36
OrlandoSan Diego
Score844
Museums within 10 km1159
Museums within 2 km of centre230
Share of museums within 2 km %1851
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 9 points.9
OrlandoSan Diego
Score4150
Drinking venues within 4 km344615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6366
Nightclubs within 4 km3931
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 11 points.11
OrlandoSan Diego
Score4455
Protected land share 50 km %156
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km52 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 14 points.14
OrlandoSan Diego
Score8975
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km203
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares308 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km40
Sights concentration. San Diego leads by 24 points.24
OrlandoSan Diego
Score1640
Notable places within 2 km1040
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Orlando and San Diego are level on 43.
OrlandoSan Diego
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 14 points.14
OrlandoSan Diego
Score7488
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Orlando
No coastline within reach
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
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). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoSan Diego
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
BostonBOS, PSM
2 h 45 m
€176-244
MCO · 14 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
Las VegasLAS
4 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
DenverDEN, APA
3 h 35 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 15 m
€64-224
SAN · 3 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
50 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 30 m
€195-271
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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

MeasureOrlandoSan Diego
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 m129 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoSan Diego
City population334,8541,386,932
People per km²1,0861,438
Museums within 10 km1126
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3044
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.