VacationSelector

Orlando or Sydney?

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.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
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.

OrlandoSydney
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
OrlandoSydney
Score060
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km1160
Coast distance68 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 30 points.30
OrlandoSydney
Score4878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3652,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2131
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 43 points.43
OrlandoSydney
Score851
Museums within 10 km1144
Museums within 2 km of centre220
Share of museums within 2 km %1845
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 34 points.34
OrlandoSydney
Score4175
Drinking venues within 4 km3442,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2161,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6369
Nightclubs within 4 km39120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 14 points.14
OrlandoSydney
Score4458
Protected land share 50 km %1510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km52 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 25 points.25
OrlandoSydney
Score8964
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km202
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares115 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km37
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 44 points.44
OrlandoSydney
Score1660
Notable places within 2 km10123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sydney leads by 7 points.7
OrlandoSydney
Score4350
Price level global10090.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 7 points.7
OrlandoSydney
Score7481
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 mm55 mm to 121 mm
Dry months00
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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Orlando
No sunshine record
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoSydney
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
19 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
9 h 50 m
€671
SYD · 9 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 30 m
€195-271
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
16 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
16 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
SantiagoSCL
8 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureOrlandoSydney
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation34 m6 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoSydney
City population334,8545,450,496
People per km²1,086449
Museums within 10 km1138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3079
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months

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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.