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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Havana or Sorrento?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Havana for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’s own page.

Choose Sorrento for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Sorrento’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Havana 64, Sorrento 60: Havana leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Sorrento 32: Havana leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Sorrento 28: Havana leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Sorrento 42: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Sorrento 58: Sorrento leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Sorrento 38: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Sorrento 32: Havana leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Sorrento 20: Havana leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Sorrento 48: Sorrento leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Sorrento.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Havana
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sorrento
49match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Sorrento in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Havana has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Sorrento has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Sorrento's sunshine is measured 54 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaSorrento
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105112
Elevation59 m50 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaSorrento
City population2,492,61815,407
People per km²3,4231,541
Museums within 10 km126
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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). 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.