VacationSelector

Madrid or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

MadridSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
MadridSorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km478
Coast distance305 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 64 points.64
MadridSorrento
Score8319
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,508249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km285
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 38 points.38
MadridSorrento
Score7537
Museums within 10 km977
Museums within 2 km of centre594
Share of museums within 2 km %6157
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 59 points.59
MadridSorrento
Score8122
Drinking venues within 4 km2,414179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6273
Nightclubs within 4 km3412
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 40 points.40
MadridSorrento
Score6323
Protected land share 50 km %197
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km187 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 72 points.72
MadridSorrento
Score775
Tourist attractions within 2 km612
Park area within 2 km187 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 65 points.65
MadridSorrento
Score7510
Notable places within 2 km2887
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 3 points.3
MadridSorrento
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 1 points.1
MadridSorrento
Score7273
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months73
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 14 km
3 h 0 m
€187-245
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
5 h 5 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
3 h 25 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

MeasureMadridSorrento
Official languageSpanishItalian
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 number112112
Elevation663 m50 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridSorrento
City population3,506,73015,407
People per km²5,8011,541
Museums within 10 km885
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre10611
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.