VacationSelector

Maastricht or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Maastricht
✓ Best match
41
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

MaastrichtSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
MaastrichtSorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km678
Coast distance118 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Maastricht leads by 29 points.29
MaastrichtSorrento
Score4819
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km225
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 16 points.16
MaastrichtSorrento
Score5337
Museums within 10 km237
Museums within 2 km of centre134
Share of museums within 2 km %5757
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Maastricht leads by 8 points.8
MaastrichtSorrento
Score3022
Drinking venues within 4 km223179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8273
Nightclubs within 4 km132
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 14 points.14
MaastrichtSorrento
Score3723
Protected land share 50 km %197
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km33 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 41 points.41
MaastrichtSorrento
Score465
Tourist attractions within 2 km152
Park area within 2 km33 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Maastricht leads by 26 points.26
MaastrichtSorrento
Score3610
Notable places within 2 km327
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 10 points.10
MaastrichtSorrento
Score5868
Price level global79.264.9
Daily budget€181€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 14 points.14
MaastrichtSorrento
Score5973
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
1 h 40 m
€81-107
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 40 m
€111-224
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 55 m
€80-128
NAP · 30 km
SofiaSOF
2 h 40 m
€98-110
EIN · 70 km
1 h 35 m
€93-234
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureMaastrichtSorrento
Official languageDutchItalian
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 number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m50 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtSorrento
City population120,22715,407
People per km²2,0001,541
Museums within 10 km215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre3311
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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.