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The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Phnom Penh 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 Phnom Penh for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Sorrento for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Phnom Penh 6, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Phnom Penh 62, Sorrento 60: Phnom Penh leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Phnom Penh 62, Sorrento 32: Phnom Penh leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Phnom Penh 58, Sorrento 28: Phnom Penh leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Phnom Penh 28, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Phnom Penh 34, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 61 points.
Good for families. Phnom Penh 32, Sorrento 42: Sorrento leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Phnom Penh 35, Sorrento 58: Sorrento leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Phnom Penh 46, Sorrento 38: Phnom Penh leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Phnom Penh 86, Sorrento 32: Phnom Penh leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Phnom Penh 32, Sorrento 20: Phnom Penh leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Phnom Penh 50, Sorrento 48: Phnom Penh leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Phnom Penh and Sorrento.

Your match

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

Phnom Penh
44match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sorrento
Best match
49match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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. Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePhnom PenhSorrento
Official languageKhmerItalian
CurrencyRiel (KHR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 117, ambulance 119, fire 118112
Elevation11 m50 m
Main airportTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhnom PenhSorrento
City population2,129,37115,407
People per km²3,1381,541
Museums within 10 km36
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
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). 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.