VacationSelector

Orlando or San Jose?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

San Jose
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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 Jose
Beaches & swimming. San Jose leads by 8 points.8
OrlandoSan Jose
Score08
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance68 km14 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Orlando leads by 7 points.7
OrlandoSan Jose
Score4841
Restaurants within 2 km of centre365313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2116
Museums & heritage. San Jose leads by 18 points.18
OrlandoSan Jose
Score826
Museums within 10 km1120
Museums within 2 km of centre29
Share of museums within 2 km %1845
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Orlando leads by 10 points.10
OrlandoSan Jose
Score4131
Drinking venues within 4 km344231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre21688
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6338
Nightclubs within 4 km3916
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 26 points.26
OrlandoSan Jose
Score4470
Protected land share 50 km %1526
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %10091
Park area within 2 km52 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 56 points.56
OrlandoSan Jose
Score8933
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km202
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares101 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km2
Sights concentration. Orlando leads by 2 points.2
OrlandoSan Jose
Score1614
Notable places within 2 km109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Orlando and San Jose are level on 43.
OrlandoSan Jose
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 11 points.11
OrlandoSan Jose
Score7485
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months08
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 Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Orlando
No coastline within reach
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
San Jose
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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoSan Jose
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
5 h 15 m
€252-262
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
BostonBOS, PSM
2 h 45 m
€176-244
MCO · 14 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 30 m
€195-271
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SJC · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
San JoseSJO
3 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 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 Jose
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 m25 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoSan Jose
City population334,8541,013,240
People per km²1,0862,167
Museums within 10 km1119
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3030
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.