VacationSelector

Paris or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

ParisSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
ParisSorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km278
Coast distance149 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 71 points.71
ParisSorrento
Score9019
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,732249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km335
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 39 points.39
ParisSorrento
Score7637
Museums within 10 km1857
Museums within 2 km of centre654
Share of museums within 2 km %3557
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Paris leads by 66 points.66
ParisSorrento
Score8822
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4573
Nightclubs within 4 km2012
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 25 points.25
ParisSorrento
Score4823
Protected land share 50 km %287
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km82 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 70 points.70
ParisSorrento
Score755
Tourist attractions within 2 km892
Park area within 2 km82 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 84 points.84
ParisSorrento
Score9410
Notable places within 2 km8657
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 6 points.6
ParisSorrento
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 7 points.7
ParisSorrento
Score6673
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months13
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
No sunshine record
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€152-378
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
1 h 30 m
€160-210
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 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 2026-08 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

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 km2515
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre16911
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). 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. 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.