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The Iguazu Falls in the green jungle, Puerto Iguazu
Puerto IguazuThe Iguazu Falls in the green jungle
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Puerto Iguazu by Muhammed Ballan, Pexels License; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Iguazu 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 Puerto Iguazu for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Sorrento for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • food and drink

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. Puerto Iguazu 5, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Iguazu 28, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Iguazu 9, Sorrento 32: Sorrento leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Iguazu 14, Sorrento 28: Sorrento leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Iguazu 95, Sorrento 80: Puerto Iguazu leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Puerto Iguazu 33, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 62 points.
Good for families. Puerto Iguazu 55, Sorrento 42: Puerto Iguazu leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Puerto Iguazu 54, Sorrento 58: Sorrento leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Iguazu 17, Sorrento 38: Sorrento leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Puerto Iguazu 48, Sorrento 32: Puerto Iguazu leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Iguazu 7, Sorrento 20: Sorrento leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Iguazu 34, Sorrento 48: Sorrento leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Iguazu and Sorrento.

Your match

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

Puerto Iguazu
33match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors 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.

Puerto Iguazu in July

22 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
103 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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. Puerto Iguazu: 1991-2020 normals, Iguazu Aerodrome (17.8 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto IguazuSorrento
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation162 m50 m
Main airportCataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)18 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto IguazuSorrento
City population54,90315,407
People per km²-1,541
Museums within 10 km06
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.