VacationSelector

Manchester or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Manchester
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

ManchesterSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 49 points.49
ManchesterSorrento
Score2877
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1078
Coast distance27 km0 km
Water distance27 km0 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 49 points.49
ManchesterSorrento
Score6819
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km355
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 5 points.5
ManchesterSorrento
Score4237
Museums within 10 km237
Museums within 2 km of centre114
Share of museums within 2 km %4857
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 40 points.40
ManchesterSorrento
Score6222
Drinking venues within 4 km1,029179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre792131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7773
Nightclubs within 4 km822
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 13 points.13
ManchesterSorrento
Score3623
Protected land share 50 km %177
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %9942
Park area within 2 km63 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Manchester leads by 27 points.27
ManchesterSorrento
Score325
Tourist attractions within 2 km52
Park area within 2 km63 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 38 points.38
ManchesterSorrento
Score4810
Notable places within 2 km617
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 14 points.14
ManchesterSorrento
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 19 points.19
ManchesterSorrento
Score5473
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromManchesterSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
TurinTRN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 30 m
€96-157
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 20 m
€39-65
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureManchesterSorrento
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
Elevation38 m50 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterSorrento
City population547,62715,407
People per km²4,7371,541
Museums within 10 km285
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre6311
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.