VacationSelector

London or Sorrento?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

LondonSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
LondonSorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km4778
Coast distance43 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. London leads by 69 points.69
LondonSorrento
Score8819
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km405
Museums & heritage. London leads by 35 points.35
LondonSorrento
Score7237
Museums within 10 km1487
Museums within 2 km of centre494
Share of museums within 2 km %3357
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. London leads by 73 points.73
LondonSorrento
Score9522
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4673
Nightclubs within 4 km3122
Nature & day trips. London leads by 17 points.17
LondonSorrento
Score4023
Protected land share 50 km %167
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9742
Park area within 2 km84 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 70 points.70
LondonSorrento
Score755
Tourist attractions within 2 km852
Park area within 2 km84 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. London leads by 79 points.79
LondonSorrento
Score8910
Notable places within 2 km6497
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 14 points.14
LondonSorrento
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 10 points.10
LondonSorrento
Score6373
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months13
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
TurinTRN
1 h 45 m
no fares
STN · 49 km
1 h 30 m
€96-157
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 15 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 35 m
€184-208
LHR · 23 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLondonSorrento
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
Elevation4 m50 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonSorrento
City population8,799,72815,407
People per km²5,5981,541
Museums within 10 km2155
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre11611
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.