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Macau or Sorrento?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
Macau

Photo: tian Jin, Pexels License

Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
Sorrento

Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Your match

Macau
46
match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Sorrento
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

MacauSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 36 points.36
Food & drink. Macau leads by 17 points.17
Culture & sights. Macau leads by 30 points.30
Nightlife. Macau leads by 12 points.12
Nature & outdoors. Sorrento leads by 75 points.75
Day trips. Sorrento leads by 43 points.43
Good for families. Macau leads by 6 points.6
Getting around. Macau leads by 2 points.2
Shopping & style. Macau leads by 20 points.20
Affordability. Macau leads by 12 points.12
Live music & performing arts. Macau leads by 16 points.16
Wellness & relaxation. Sorrento leads by 8 points.8
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Macau and Sorrento.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyMacauSorrento
Daytime high32 °C31 °C
Night-time low26 °C18 °C
Rainfall in the month281 mm17 mm
Sunshine7 hours a day11 hours a day
Sea temperature29 °C25 °C
Daylight13 hours a day15 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Macau
19
19
22
25
29
31
32
32
31
29
25
20
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Macau
19
19
20
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Macau
34
42
78
160
285
369
281
338
233
71
38
32
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Macau
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Macau
4
3
3
3
4
5
7
6
6
6
5
5
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4

Where the figures come from

Sorrento's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMacauSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
11 h 15 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 41 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
9 h 0 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

MeasureMacauSorrento
Official languagePortuguese, Cantonese, Standard ChineseItalian
CurrencyPataca (MOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsFGM220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation22 m50 m
Main airportMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMacauSorrento
City population682,10015,407
People per km²5,9161,541
Museums within 10 km285
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months5 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.