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Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London
LondonBig Ben and Westminster Bridge
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

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

London 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 London for

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

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

Choose Sorrento for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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. London 25, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. London 84, Sorrento 60: London leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. London 94, Sorrento 32: London leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. London 88, Sorrento 28: London leads by 60 points.
Nature & outdoors. London 57, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 23 points.
Day trips. London 90, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 5 points.
Good for families. London 82, Sorrento 42: London leads by 40 points.
Getting around. London 85, Sorrento 58: London leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. London 95, Sorrento 38: London leads by 57 points.
Affordability. London 15, Sorrento 32: Sorrento leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. London 98, Sorrento 20: London leads by 78 points.
Wellness & relaxation. London 40, Sorrento 48: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: London and Sorrento.

Your match

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

London
Best match
71match

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

Sorrento
49match

Wins on beaches 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.

London in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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

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. London: 1992-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, London Weather Centre (1.3 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

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 centre224 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 km2166
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.