VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

HeidelbergSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
HeidelbergSorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km678
Coast distance406 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Heidelberg leads by 28 points.28
HeidelbergSorrento
Score4719
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km265
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 22 points.22
HeidelbergSorrento
Score5937
Museums within 10 km547
Museums within 2 km of centre234
Share of museums within 2 km %4357
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Heidelberg leads by 5 points.5
HeidelbergSorrento
Score2722
Drinking venues within 4 km201179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8473
Nightclubs within 4 km82
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 51 points.51
HeidelbergSorrento
Score7423
Protected land share 50 km %527
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km20 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Heidelberg leads by 38 points.38
HeidelbergSorrento
Score435
Tourist attractions within 2 km292
Park area within 2 km20 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Heidelberg leads by 26 points.26
HeidelbergSorrento
Score3610
Notable places within 2 km317
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergSorrento
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 12 points.12
HeidelbergSorrento
Score6173
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall45 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 15 m
€71-108
FRA · 69 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 69 km
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 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

MeasureHeidelbergSorrento
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation114 m50 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergSorrento
City population162,96015,407
People per km²1,4961,541
Museums within 10 km175
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre4511
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.