VacationSelector

Orlando or Thessaloniki?

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 and year-round weather with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

OrlandoThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
OrlandoThessaloniki
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance68 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Thessaloniki leads by 2 points.2
OrlandoThessaloniki
Score4850
Restaurants within 2 km of centre365640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2115
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 41 points.41
OrlandoThessaloniki
Score849
Museums within 10 km1134
Museums within 2 km of centre222
Share of museums within 2 km %1865
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 26 points.26
OrlandoThessaloniki
Score4167
Drinking venues within 4 km3441,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6357
Nightclubs within 4 km3961
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 21 points.21
OrlandoThessaloniki
Score4465
Protected land share 50 km %1525
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km52 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 48 points.48
OrlandoThessaloniki
Score8941
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km201
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares39 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km16
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 40 points.40
OrlandoThessaloniki
Score1656
Notable places within 2 km1098
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 31 points.31
OrlandoThessaloniki
Score4374
Price level global10055.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 2 points.2
OrlandoThessaloniki
Score7472
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Orlando
No sunshine record
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoThessaloniki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 128 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureOrlandoThessaloniki
Official languageGreek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m6 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoThessaloniki
City population334,854309,617
People per km²1,08616,042
Museums within 10 km1131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3045
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.