VacationSelector

Budapest or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

BudapestSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
BudapestSorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km678
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 58 points.58
BudapestSorrento
Score7719
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km355
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 27 points.27
BudapestSorrento
Score6437
Museums within 10 km1447
Museums within 2 km of centre644
Share of museums within 2 km %4457
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 50 points.50
BudapestSorrento
Score7222
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6673
Nightclubs within 4 km972
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 17 points.17
BudapestSorrento
Score4023
Protected land share 50 km %87
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km111 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 66 points.66
BudapestSorrento
Score715
Tourist attractions within 2 km752
Park area within 2 km111 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 59 points.59
BudapestSorrento
Score6910
Notable places within 2 km2067
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 12 points.12
BudapestSorrento
Score8068
Price level global4864.9
Daily budget€104€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 9 points.9
BudapestSorrento
Score6473
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months53
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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestSorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestSorrento
Official languageHungarianItalian
CurrencyForint (HUF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m50 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestSorrento
City population1,685,20915,407
People per km²3,2091,541
Museums within 10 km815
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre8611
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). 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. 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.

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.