VacationSelector

Mexico City or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

Mexico CitySorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
Mexico CitySorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km478
Coast distance247 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 47 points.47
Mexico CitySorrento
Score6619
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km155
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 42 points.42
Mexico CitySorrento
Score7937
Museums within 10 km1387
Museums within 2 km of centre654
Share of museums within 2 km %4757
Unesco sites within 50 km65
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 56 points.56
Mexico CitySorrento
Score7822
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4373
Nightclubs within 4 km1982
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 40 points.40
Mexico CitySorrento
Score6323
Protected land share 50 km %307
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km32 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 45 points.45
Mexico CitySorrento
Score505
Tourist attractions within 2 km232
Park area within 2 km32 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 44 points.44
Mexico CitySorrento
Score5410
Notable places within 2 km887
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CitySorrento
Score7668
Price level global54.264.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 17 points.17
Mexico CitySorrento
Score9073
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CitySorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 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

MeasureMexico CitySorrento
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m50 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CitySorrento
City population9,209,94415,407
People per km²6,2021,541
Museums within 10 km1085
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65
Distinct cuisines in the centre5011
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.