Orlando
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Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States. Part of Central Florida, it is the fourth-most populous city in the state and its most populous inland city, with a population of 307,573 at the 2020 census. The Orlando metropolitan area has an estimated 2.67 million residents as of 2020, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Florida and the 22nd-largest in the U.S.
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Why visit
Visit Orlando for streets, public buildings, local museums, and regional context. Use Orlando to connect cultural institutions with streets, food, public space, and nearby landscape rather than treating each stop separately. A good itinerary should stay selective. A good route in Orlando begins with one serious site and adds smaller stops only when they clarify the same area. That restraint helps Orlando feel like a place rather than a sequence of obligations. If Orlando has useful day trips or nearby landscape, use them to widen the context rather than to overload the schedule.
When to avoid
Do not visit Orlando expecting every useful stop to be close together or easy to improvise. In Orlando, opening hours, transport, weather, crowds, and distance can shape the day more than the list of sights. In Orlando, distance, heat, parking, car dependence, and uneven transit can matter more than the list of sights. For Orlando, do not make weak transit carry the whole day; use a ride or car when it keeps the route sensible.
Hot and wet season (May to October)
The warmer period in Orlando generally falls in June through August. Warm weather in Orlando can be useful, but humidity and storms may decide the pace. Longer days in Orlando help, but they do not make scattered plans better. A warm-weather route in Orlando needs a rhythm: outdoor stops, interiors, transit breaks, and enough shade.
Dry season (November to April)
December through February are the cooler or wetter period in Orlando. Use the cooler months in Orlando for performances, museums, and neighborhood walking rather than heat-managed sightseeing. In Orlando, comfort depends less on temperature alone than on rain, wind, snow, daylight, and whether services are reduced. In Orlando, this season can work well for museums, churches, galleries, theaters, bookshops, cafes, and ordinary neighborhood life. Keep Orlando compact in this season: fewer outdoor sections, better hour checks, and practical rides when conditions make transit awkward.
The next week in Orlando
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Partly cloudy
33° / 19°
UV Very high
Sat
Overcast
33° / 22°
UV Very high
Sun
Drizzle
32° / 22°
2.1 mm
UV High
Mon
Drizzle
34° / 23°
1.0 mm
UV Very high
Tue
Overcast
33° / 24°
UV Very high
Wed
Overcast
34° / 24°
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
39° / 12°
Typical high / low
3 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.5h
06:35 – 20:08local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Orlando
5 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Orlando International Airport (MCO) at 14 km.
Getting around Orlando
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC BY 4.0, City of Orlando, Tim Eggert.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.