VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Sorrento?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

AmsterdamSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 37 points.37
AmsterdamSorrento
Score4077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km3378
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 64 points.64
AmsterdamSorrento
Score8319
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km445
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 43 points.43
AmsterdamSorrento
Score8037
Museums within 10 km987
Museums within 2 km of centre694
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 48 points.48
AmsterdamSorrento
Score7022
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7073
Nightclubs within 4 km1142
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 37 points.37
AmsterdamSorrento
Score6023
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8242
Park area within 2 km49 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 63 points.63
AmsterdamSorrento
Score685
Tourist attractions within 2 km742
Park area within 2 km49 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 58 points.58
AmsterdamSorrento
Score6810
Notable places within 2 km1967
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 10 points.10
AmsterdamSorrento
Score5868
Price level global79.264.9
Daily budget€181€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 16 points.16
AmsterdamSorrento
Score5773
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months03
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamSorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€106-155
AMS · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€203-231
AMS · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 12 km
3 h 5 m
€109-195
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 30 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

MeasureAmsterdamSorrento
Official languageDutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m50 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamSorrento
City population921,46815,407
People per km²4,2081,541
Museums within 10 km1015
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre9811
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.