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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Sorrento?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Montevideo for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’s own page.

Choose Sorrento for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Sorrento’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Montevideo 55, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Sorrento 32: Montevideo leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Sorrento 28: Montevideo leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Sorrento 42: Montevideo leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Sorrento 58: Sorrento leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Sorrento 38: Sorrento leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Sorrento 32: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Sorrento 20: Montevideo leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Sorrento 48: Sorrento leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Sorrento.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Montevideo
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sorrento
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Sorrento in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sorrento has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Sorrento's sunshine is measured 54 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoSorrento
Official language-Italian
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation41 m50 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoSorrento
City population1,302,95415,407
People per km²1,7851,541
Museums within 10 km366
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.