VacationSelector

Chicago or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Chicago
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

ChicagoSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 24 points.24
ChicagoSorrento
Score5377
Swim season months15
Beaches 10 km1278
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 62 points.62
ChicagoSorrento
Score8119
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,147249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km375
Museums & heritage. Chicago leads by 9 points.9
ChicagoSorrento
Score4637
Museums within 10 km457
Museums within 2 km of centre204
Share of museums within 2 km %4457
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 40 points.40
ChicagoSorrento
Score6222
Drinking venues within 4 km1,123179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre728131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6573
Nightclubs within 4 km512
Nature & day trips. Chicago leads by 15 points.15
ChicagoSorrento
Score3823
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km118 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 50 points.50
ChicagoSorrento
Score555
Tourist attractions within 2 km182
Park area within 2 km118 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 60 points.60
ChicagoSorrento
Score7010
Notable places within 2 km2177
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 25 points.25
ChicagoSorrento
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 16 points.16
ChicagoSorrento
Score5773
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Chicago
No sunshine record
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
9 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 50 m
€141-200
ORD · 25 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
9 h 15 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
8 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
9 h 45 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
55 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

MeasureChicagoSorrento
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m50 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoSorrento
City population2,746,38815,407
People per km²4,5291,541
Museums within 10 km435
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre8711
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month5 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.