VacationSelector

Orlando or York?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

OrlandoYork
Beaches & swimming. Orlando and York are level on 0.
OrlandoYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance68 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. York leads by 6 points.6
OrlandoYork
Score4854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre365361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2131
Museums & heritage. York leads by 38 points.38
OrlandoYork
Score846
Museums within 10 km1118
Museums within 2 km of centre216
Share of museums within 2 km %1889
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. York leads by 2 points.2
OrlandoYork
Score4143
Drinking venues within 4 km344450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6378
Nightclubs within 4 km3914
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 11 points.11
OrlandoYork
Score4433
Protected land share 50 km %1517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km52 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 46 points.46
OrlandoYork
Score8943
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km203
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares42 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km13
Sights concentration. York leads by 23 points.23
OrlandoYork
Score1639
Notable places within 2 km1037
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. York leads by 11 points.11
OrlandoYork
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 18 points.18
OrlandoYork
Score7456
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 mm39 mm to 66 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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Orlando
No sunshine record
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoYork
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 25 m
€32-127
MCO · 14 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Punta CanaPUJ
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
CancunCUN
1 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Las VegasLAS
4 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Montego BayMBJ
2 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureOrlandoYork
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation34 m25 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoYork
City population334,854208,400
People per km²1,086766
Museums within 10 km1124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3054

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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.