VacationSelector

Dubai or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

DubaiSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 23 points.23
DubaiSorrento
Score10077
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km5278
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 47 points.47
DubaiSorrento
Score6619
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km265
Museums & heritage. Dubai leads by 1 points.1
DubaiSorrento
Score3837
Museums within 10 km267
Museums within 2 km of centre184
Share of museums within 2 km %6957
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 31 points.31
DubaiSorrento
Score5322
Drinking venues within 4 km601179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5173
Nightclubs within 4 km842
Nature & day trips. Sorrento leads by 5 points.5
DubaiSorrento
Score1823
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5242
Park area within 2 km13 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 44 points.44
DubaiSorrento
Score495
Tourist attractions within 2 km372
Park area within 2 km13 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Dubai leads by 27 points.27
DubaiSorrento
Score3710
Notable places within 2 km337
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 1 points.1
DubaiSorrento
Score6968
Price level global63.464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 7 points.7
DubaiSorrento
Score6673
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months123
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
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. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
6 h 10 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
6 h 0 m
€306-356
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ViennaVIE
5 h 40 m
€283-323
DXB · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
CataniaCTA
5 h 25 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€36-65
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
6 h 45 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
9 h 0 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

MeasureDubaiSorrento
Official languageArabicItalian
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m50 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiSorrento
City population3,944,75115,407
People per km²1,541
Museums within 10 km145
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre5211
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.