VacationSelector

Philadelphia or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
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.

PhiladelphiaSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
PhiladelphiaSorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km178
Coast distance13 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 58 points.58
PhiladelphiaSorrento
Score7719
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km355
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 23 points.23
PhiladelphiaSorrento
Score6037
Museums within 10 km897
Museums within 2 km of centre484
Share of museums within 2 km %5457
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 37 points.37
PhiladelphiaSorrento
Score5922
Drinking venues within 4 km930179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6273
Nightclubs within 4 km412
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 26 points.26
PhiladelphiaSorrento
Score4923
Protected land share 50 km %147
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8942
Park area within 2 km75 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 48 points.48
PhiladelphiaSorrento
Score535
Tourist attractions within 2 km162
Park area within 2 km75 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 44 points.44
PhiladelphiaSorrento
Score5410
Notable places within 2 km887
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 25 points.25
PhiladelphiaSorrento
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 13 points.13
PhiladelphiaSorrento
Score6073
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
CataniaCTA
9 h 15 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
1 h 5 m
€36-65
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
PalermoPMO
9 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 0 m
€39-94
NAP · 30 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DublinDUB
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 5 m
€109-195
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

MeasurePhiladelphiaSorrento
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m50 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaSorrento
City population1,603,79715,407
People per km²4,3391,541
Museums within 10 km545
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre7511
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.