VacationSelector

Porto or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families 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.

PortoSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 17 points.17
PortoSorrento
Score6077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km5278
Coast distance4 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 49 points.49
PortoSorrento
Score6819
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,172249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km275
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 34 points.34
PortoSorrento
Score7137
Museums within 10 km1017
Museums within 2 km of centre574
Share of museums within 2 km %5657
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Porto leads by 36 points.36
PortoSorrento
Score5822
Drinking venues within 4 km900179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6373
Nightclubs within 4 km382
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 10 points.10
PortoSorrento
Score3323
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6142
Park area within 2 km30 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 60 points.60
PortoSorrento
Score655
Tourist attractions within 2 km1222
Park area within 2 km30 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 44 points.44
PortoSorrento
Score5410
Notable places within 2 km857
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 6 points.6
PortoSorrento
Score7468
Price level global55.964.9
Daily budget€109€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 2 points.2
PortoSorrento
Score7173
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months33
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromPortoSorrento
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€187-245
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
3 h 20 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

MeasurePortoSorrento
Official languagePortugueseItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation104 m50 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoSorrento
City population231,80015,407
People per km²5,5991,541
Museums within 10 km425
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre7011
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.