VacationSelector

Melbourne or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

MelbourneSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 22 points.22
MelbourneSorrento
Score5577
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1978
Coast distance4 km0 km
Water distance4 km0 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 56 points.56
MelbourneSorrento
Score7519
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,888249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km295
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 12 points.12
MelbourneSorrento
Score4937
Museums within 10 km427
Museums within 2 km of centre244
Share of museums within 2 km %5757
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 52 points.52
MelbourneSorrento
Score7422
Drinking venues within 4 km1,921179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6273
Nightclubs within 4 km1242
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 20 points.20
MelbourneSorrento
Score4323
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8142
Park area within 2 km166 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 55 points.55
MelbourneSorrento
Score605
Tourist attractions within 2 km262
Park area within 2 km166 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 47 points.47
MelbourneSorrento
Score5710
Notable places within 2 km1037
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 18 points.18
MelbourneSorrento
Score5068
Price level global90.264.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 3 points.3
MelbourneSorrento
Score7673
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneSorrento
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
5 h 35 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

MeasureMelbourneSorrento
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m50 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneSorrento
City population5,350,70515,407
People per km²5351,541
Museums within 10 km425
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre8611
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.