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The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Paris 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 Paris for

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

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

Choose Sorrento for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Paris 9, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Paris 96, Sorrento 60: Paris leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Paris 97, Sorrento 32: Paris leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Paris 80, Sorrento 28: Paris leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Paris 52, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Paris 92, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Paris 79, Sorrento 42: Paris leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Paris 88, Sorrento 58: Paris leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Paris 98, Sorrento 38: Paris leads by 60 points.
Affordability. Paris 25, Sorrento 32: Sorrento leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Paris 88, Sorrento 20: Paris leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Paris 40, Sorrento 48: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Paris and Sorrento.

Your match

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

Paris
Best match
70match

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

Sorrento
49match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureParisSorrento
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
Elevation27 m50 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisSorrento
City population2,103,77815,407
People per km²19,9601,541
Museums within 10 km2516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.