VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration 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.

Los AngelesSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 48 points.48
Los AngelesSorrento
Score2977
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km078
Swim season months05
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 47 points.47
Los AngelesSorrento
Score6619
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km225
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 12 points.12
Los AngelesSorrento
Score4937
Museums within 10 km697
Museums within 2 km of centre234
Share of museums within 2 km %3357
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 32 points.32
Los AngelesSorrento
Score5422
Drinking venues within 4 km660179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6573
Nightclubs within 4 km642
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 39 points.39
Los AngelesSorrento
Score6223
Protected land share 50 km %267
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8042
Park area within 2 km20 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Los Angeles leads by 28 points.28
Los AngelesSorrento
Score335
Tourist attractions within 2 km112
Park area within 2 km20 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 44 points.44
Los AngelesSorrento
Score5410
Notable places within 2 km887
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 25 points.25
Los AngelesSorrento
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 14 points.14
Los AngelesSorrento
Score8773
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months83
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesSorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 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

MeasureLos AngelesSorrento
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m50 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesSorrento
City population3,898,74715,407
People per km²2,9941,541
Museums within 10 km385
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre4611
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.