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Sorrento

Match

37

  • Beach first52
  • Culture first31
  • Food & nightlife30
  • Family trip41
  • Nature first42
  • Good weather48
  • On a budget43

The nine measures

Each scored 0 to 100 against fixed anchors, so a score means the same thing on every page. Open a row for the figures behind it.

Beaches & swimming. Scores 77 out of 100.77
Score77
Swim season months5
Beaches 10 km78
Coast distance0 km
Water distance0 km

Sea reaches 21 °C or more in 5 months, 78 beaches lie within 10 km, and the water is 0 km away.

Places to eat. Scores 19 out of 100.19
Score19
Restaurants within 2 km of centre249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km5

249 restaurants within 2 km of the centre, spread across an effective 5 kitchens.

Museums & heritage. Scores 37 out of 100.37
Score37
Museums within 10 km7
Museums within 2 km of centre4
Share of museums within 2 km %57
Unesco sites within 50 km5

7 museums mapped within 10 km, 57% of them within 2 km of the centre, and 5 whole UNESCO inscriptions within 50 km.

Nightlife. Scores 22 out of 100.22
Score22
Drinking venues within 4 km179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %73
Nightclubs within 4 km2

179 places to drink within 4 km, 2 nightclubs among them, and 73% of the drinking venues within 2 km of the centre.

Nature & day trips. Scores 23 out of 100.23
Score23
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %0
Land share of disc %42
Park area within 2 km4 hectares

7% of the 50 km disc around the city is protected land, and there are 4 hectares of park within 2 km of the centre.

Good for families. Scores 5 out of 100.5
Score5
Tourist attractions within 2 km2
Park area within 2 km4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km1

2 tourist attractions within 2 km beside 4 hectares of park, and 1 theme park within 30 km.

Sights concentration. Scores 10 out of 100.10
Score10
Notable places within 2 km7
Min wikipedia languages5

7 notable places within 2 km of the centre, counting places with a Wikipedia presence in at least five languages.

Value for money. Scores 68 out of 100.68
Score68
Price level global64.9
Daily budget€155

National price level of 64.9 against the United States at 100, scored on a fixed scale from 20, the cheapest countries anyone travels to, to 160, the most expensive. The estimated daily budget there is €155.

Year-round weather. Scores 73 out of 100.73
Score73
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months3

Daytime highs run 13-31 °C across the year, with 3 month(s) at 40 mm of rain or less.

0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month, shaded against this city's own year: the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest.

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Daytime high, °C
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
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. Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 5 m
€36-65
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
3 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 0 m
€39-94
NAP · 30 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 20 m
€39-65
NAP · 30 km

The busiest departure cities for Sorrento, 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. 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. 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

MeasureSorrento
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112
Elevation50 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrento
City population15,407
People per km²1,541
Museums within 10 km5
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km5
Distinct cuisines in the centre11
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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Sources

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). 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.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-09-01. Every destination we have measured.