VacationSelector

Orlando or San Francisco?

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 Francisco
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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 Francisco
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco leads by 60 points.60
OrlandoSan Francisco
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km144
Coast distance68 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 35 points.35
OrlandoSan Francisco
Score4883
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3652,359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2139
Museums & heritage. San Francisco leads by 36 points.36
OrlandoSan Francisco
Score844
Museums within 10 km1157
Museums within 2 km of centre229
Share of museums within 2 km %1851
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 27 points.27
OrlandoSan Francisco
Score4168
Drinking venues within 4 km3441,434
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216928
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6365
Nightclubs within 4 km3997
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 16 points.16
OrlandoSan Francisco
Score4460
Protected land share 50 km %1517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %10057
Park area within 2 km52 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 32 points.32
OrlandoSan Francisco
Score8957
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km201
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares45 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km48
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 47 points.47
OrlandoSan Francisco
Score1663
Notable places within 2 km10147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Orlando and San Francisco are level on 43.
OrlandoSan Francisco
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 4 points.4
OrlandoSan Francisco
Score7478
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C14 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 mm0 mm to 105 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
San Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Orlando
No coastline within reach
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
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). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoSan Francisco
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
5 h 15 m
€252-262
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
4 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
MinneapolisMSP, STP
3 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
BostonBOS, PSM
2 h 45 m
€176-244
MCO · 14 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
San JoseSJO
3 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 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 Francisco
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 m16 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoSan Francisco
City population334,854873,965
People per km²1,0861,455
Museums within 10 km1150
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre30108
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. 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.