VacationSelector

Orlando or Santiago?

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.

Santiago
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on value for money 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.

OrlandoSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Orlando and Santiago are level on 0.
OrlandoSantiago
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance68 km89 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 24 points.24
OrlandoSantiago
Score4872
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3651,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2132
Museums & heritage. Santiago leads by 37 points.37
OrlandoSantiago
Score845
Museums within 10 km1187
Museums within 2 km of centre230
Share of museums within 2 km %1834
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 20 points.20
OrlandoSantiago
Score4161
Drinking venues within 4 km344912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6359
Nightclubs within 4 km39112
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 8 points.8
OrlandoSantiago
Score4452
Protected land share 50 km %1517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 40 points.40
OrlandoSantiago
Score8949
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km203
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares88 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km12
Sights concentration. Santiago leads by 32 points.32
OrlandoSantiago
Score1648
Notable places within 2 km1062
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 38 points.38
OrlandoSantiago
Score4381
Price level global10046.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 11 points.11
OrlandoSantiago
Score7485
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 mm0 mm to 87 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
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Orlando
No sunshine record
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoSantiago
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
Punta CanaPUJ
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 45 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
3 h 45 m
€267-313
SCL · 14 km
LimaLIM
6 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
BogotaBOG
3 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
5 h 40 m
€340-367
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 25 m
€32-127
MCO · 14 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
CancunCUN
1 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
SCL · 14 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

MeasureOrlandoSantiago
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation34 m575 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoSantiago
City population334,8546,257,516
People per km²1,0867,468
Museums within 10 km1154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3064

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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. 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.