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The Massachusetts State House, Boston
BostonThe Massachusetts State House
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Boston by Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Boston or Sorrento?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Boston for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Boston’s own page.

Choose Sorrento for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sorrento’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Boston 35, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Boston 64, Sorrento 60: Boston leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Boston 72, Sorrento 32: Boston leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Boston 47, Sorrento 28: Boston leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boston 60, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Boston 72, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Boston 72, Sorrento 42: Boston leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Boston 70, Sorrento 58: Boston leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Boston 55, Sorrento 38: Boston leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Boston 18, Sorrento 32: Sorrento leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boston 72, Sorrento 20: Boston leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boston 30, Sorrento 48: Sorrento leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boston and Sorrento.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Boston
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sorrento
49match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Boston in July

28 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Sorrento in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sorrento has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Sorrento's sunshine is measured 54 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBostonSorrento
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m50 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonSorrento
City population675,64715,407
People per km²2,9101,541
Museums within 10 km516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.