VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

Fort LauderdaleSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 7 points.7
Fort LauderdaleSorrento
Score8477
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km778
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Fort Lauderdale leads by 26 points.26
Fort LauderdaleSorrento
Score4519
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km185
Museums & heritage. Sorrento leads by 17 points.17
Fort LauderdaleSorrento
Score2037
Museums within 10 km147
Museums within 2 km of centre64
Share of museums within 2 km %4357
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale leads by 12 points.12
Fort LauderdaleSorrento
Score3422
Drinking venues within 4 km259179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5673
Nightclubs within 4 km182
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 58 points.58
Fort LauderdaleSorrento
Score8123
Protected land share 50 km %207
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5142
Park area within 2 km45 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Fort Lauderdale leads by 14 points.14
Fort LauderdaleSorrento
Score195
Tourist attractions within 2 km22
Park area within 2 km45 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Sorrento leads by 10 points.10
Fort LauderdaleSorrento
Score010
Notable places within 2 km27
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 25 points.25
Fort LauderdaleSorrento
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 3 points.3
Fort LauderdaleSorrento
Score7673
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
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
Fort Lauderdale
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
2 h 35 m
€125-184
FLL · 7 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleSorrento
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m50 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleSorrento
City population182,76015,407
People per km²1,8291,541
Museums within 10 km65
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre2511
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). 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.