VacationSelector

Orlando or Zurich?

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.

Zurich
✓ Best match
44
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.

OrlandoZurich
Beaches & swimming. Orlando and Zurich are level on 0.
OrlandoZurich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km123
Coast distance68 km632 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 19 points.19
OrlandoZurich
Score4867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre365974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2130
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 48 points.48
OrlandoZurich
Score856
Museums within 10 km1176
Museums within 2 km of centre237
Share of museums within 2 km %1849
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 13 points.13
OrlandoZurich
Score4154
Drinking venues within 4 km344676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6382
Nightclubs within 4 km3974
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 7 points.7
OrlandoZurich
Score4437
Protected land share 50 km %1516
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 53 points.53
OrlandoZurich
Score8936
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km202
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares48 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km8
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 43 points.43
OrlandoZurich
Score1659
Notable places within 2 km10119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Orlando leads by 8 points.8
OrlandoZurich
Score4335
Price level global100110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 21 points.21
OrlandoZurich
Score7453
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Orlando
No sunshine record
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
San JoseSJO
3 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureOrlandoZurich
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m408 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoZurich
City population334,854452,421
People per km²1,0865,147
Museums within 10 km1163
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3078

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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. 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.