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Athens or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AthensSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 29 points.29
AthensSorrento
Score4877
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km1478
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 50 points.50
AthensSorrento
Score6919
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km255
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 36 points.36
AthensSorrento
Score7337
Museums within 10 km1227
Museums within 2 km of centre784
Share of museums within 2 km %6457
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Athens leads by 59 points.59
AthensSorrento
Score8122
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5073
Nightclubs within 4 km1362
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 22 points.22
AthensSorrento
Score4523
Protected land share 50 km %57
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5042
Park area within 2 km128 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 66 points.66
AthensSorrento
Score715
Tourist attractions within 2 km682
Park area within 2 km128 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 65 points.65
AthensSorrento
Score7510
Notable places within 2 km2917
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 6 points.6
AthensSorrento
Score7468
Price level global55.864.9
Daily budget€125€155
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 1 points.1
AthensSorrento
Score7473
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months73
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromAthensSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€71-91
ATH · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 0 m
€103-128
ATH · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
€214-254
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
€134-222
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
3 h 5 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

MeasureAthensSorrento
Official languageGreekItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m50 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensSorrento
City population643,45215,407
People per km²16,4991,541
Museums within 10 km885
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre8211
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.