VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families 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?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

EdinburghSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 22 points.22
EdinburghSorrento
Score5577
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km2078
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 51 points.51
EdinburghSorrento
Score7019
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km355
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 20 points.20
EdinburghSorrento
Score5737
Museums within 10 km307
Museums within 2 km of centre224
Share of museums within 2 km %7357
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 42 points.42
EdinburghSorrento
Score6422
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7473
Nightclubs within 4 km652
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 12 points.12
EdinburghSorrento
Score3523
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8542
Park area within 2 km166 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 67 points.67
EdinburghSorrento
Score725
Tourist attractions within 2 km872
Park area within 2 km166 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 50 points.50
EdinburghSorrento
Score6010
Notable places within 2 km1267
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghSorrento
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 22 points.22
EdinburghSorrento
Score5173
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€36-65
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 20 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

MeasureEdinburghSorrento
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m50 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghSorrento
City population488,05015,407
People per km²1,8841,541
Museums within 10 km325
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre7811
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.