VacationSelector

Brussels or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

BrusselsSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
BrusselsSorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km078
Coast distance56 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 62 points.62
BrusselsSorrento
Score8119
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,779249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km445
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 43 points.43
BrusselsSorrento
Score8037
Museums within 10 km1207
Museums within 2 km of centre594
Share of museums within 2 km %4957
Unesco sites within 50 km105
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 46 points.46
BrusselsSorrento
Score6822
Drinking venues within 4 km1,414179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6173
Nightclubs within 4 km842
Nature & day trips. Brussels leads by 8 points.8
BrusselsSorrento
Score3123
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km65 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 51 points.51
BrusselsSorrento
Score565
Tourist attractions within 2 km282
Park area within 2 km65 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 63 points.63
BrusselsSorrento
Score7310
Notable places within 2 km2547
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 8 points.8
BrusselsSorrento
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 16 points.16
BrusselsSorrento
Score5773
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 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

MeasureBrusselsSorrento
Official languageFrench, German, DutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m50 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsSorrento
City population195,54615,407
People per km²5,9081,541
Museums within 10 km1055
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km105
Distinct cuisines in the centre10911
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.