VacationSelector

Belfast or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Belfast
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

BelfastSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 29 points.29
BelfastSorrento
Score4877
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1078
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 37 points.37
BelfastSorrento
Score5619
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km315
Museums & heritage. Sorrento leads by 8 points.8
BelfastSorrento
Score2937
Museums within 10 km187
Museums within 2 km of centre64
Share of museums within 2 km %3357
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 26 points.26
BelfastSorrento
Score4822
Drinking venues within 4 km550179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6373
Nightclubs within 4 km292
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 30 points.30
BelfastSorrento
Score5323
Protected land share 50 km %197
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6542
Park area within 2 km68 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 43 points.43
BelfastSorrento
Score485
Tourist attractions within 2 km162
Park area within 2 km68 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Belfast leads by 32 points.32
BelfastSorrento
Score4210
Notable places within 2 km437
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 14 points.14
BelfastSorrento
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 22 points.22
BelfastSorrento
Score5173
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBelfastSorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 20 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

MeasureBelfastSorrento
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m50 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastSorrento
City population345,00615,407
People per km²3,0001,541
Museums within 10 km85
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre4411
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). 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.