VacationSelector

Bangkok or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

BangkokSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 37 points.37
BangkokSorrento
Score4077
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km078
Coast distance23 km0 km
Water distance23 km0 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 64 points.64
BangkokSorrento
Score8319
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km265
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 9 points.9
BangkokSorrento
Score4637
Museums within 10 km1037
Museums within 2 km of centre304
Share of museums within 2 km %2957
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 61 points.61
BangkokSorrento
Score8322
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4173
Nightclubs within 4 km722
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 28 points.28
BangkokSorrento
Score5123
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8342
Park area within 2 km42 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 52 points.52
BangkokSorrento
Score575
Tourist attractions within 2 km312
Park area within 2 km42 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 38 points.38
BangkokSorrento
Score4810
Notable places within 2 km627
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokSorrento
Score9368
Price level global29.764.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 17 points.17
BangkokSorrento
Score5673
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months33
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 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

MeasureBangkokSorrento
Official languageThaiItalian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m50 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokSorrento
City population5,676,64815,407
People per km²3,6191,541
Museums within 10 km595
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre9111
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.