VacationSelector

Marseille or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
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.

MarseilleSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 10 points.10
MarseilleSorrento
Score6777
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km6478
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 56 points.56
MarseilleSorrento
Score7519
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,320249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km395
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 13 points.13
MarseilleSorrento
Score5037
Museums within 10 km337
Museums within 2 km of centre234
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 26 points.26
MarseilleSorrento
Score4822
Drinking venues within 4 km544179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8373
Nightclubs within 4 km302
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 14 points.14
MarseilleSorrento
Score3723
Protected land share 50 km %157
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %5642
Park area within 2 km25 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Marseille leads by 39 points.39
MarseilleSorrento
Score445
Tourist attractions within 2 km172
Park area within 2 km25 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 48 points.48
MarseilleSorrento
Score5810
Notable places within 2 km1117
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 6 points.6
MarseilleSorrento
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 2 points.2
MarseilleSorrento
Score7573
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months63
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
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
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. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleSorrento
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 15 m
€103-123
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
8 h 40 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

MeasureMarseilleSorrento
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m50 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleSorrento
City population886,04015,407
People per km²3,6831,541
Museums within 10 km275
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre9311
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months5 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). 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. 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.