VacationSelector

Orlando or Sao Paulo?

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.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
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.

OrlandoSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Orlando and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
OrlandoSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance68 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 25 points.25
OrlandoSao Paulo
Score4873
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3651,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2127
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 35 points.35
OrlandoSao Paulo
Score843
Museums within 10 km1182
Museums within 2 km of centre226
Share of museums within 2 km %1832
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 31 points.31
OrlandoSao Paulo
Score4172
Drinking venues within 4 km3441,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6351
Nightclubs within 4 km39118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 7 points.7
OrlandoSao Paulo
Score4451
Protected land share 50 km %1526
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km52 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 34 points.34
OrlandoSao Paulo
Score8955
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km201
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares52 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km38
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 34 points.34
OrlandoSao Paulo
Score1650
Notable places within 2 km1068
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 38 points.38
OrlandoSao Paulo
Score4381
Price level global10046.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 9 points.9
OrlandoSao Paulo
Score7483
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months01
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
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Orlando
No sunshine record
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoSao Paulo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Punta CanaPUJ
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BostonBOS, PSM
2 h 45 m
€176-244
MCO · 14 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Belo HorizonteCNF, PLU
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€127-154
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 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

MeasureOrlandoSao Paulo
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation34 m760 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoSao Paulo
City population334,85411,451,999
People per km²1,0867,519
Museums within 10 km1190
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3059

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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.