VacationSelector

Rotterdam or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
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.

RotterdamSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 40 points.40
RotterdamSorrento
Score3777
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km2278
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 53 points.53
RotterdamSorrento
Score7219
Restaurants within 2 km of centre862249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km465
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 23 points.23
RotterdamSorrento
Score6037
Museums within 10 km417
Museums within 2 km of centre204
Share of museums within 2 km %4957
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 27 points.27
RotterdamSorrento
Score4922
Drinking venues within 4 km542179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre378131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7073
Nightclubs within 4 km402
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 19 points.19
RotterdamSorrento
Score4223
Protected land share 50 km %107
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7942
Park area within 2 km61 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 57 points.57
RotterdamSorrento
Score625
Tourist attractions within 2 km272
Park area within 2 km61 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km81
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 41 points.41
RotterdamSorrento
Score5110
Notable places within 2 km747
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 10 points.10
RotterdamSorrento
Score5868
Price level global79.264.9
Daily budget€181€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 17 points.17
RotterdamSorrento
Score5673
Monthly daytime high6.2 °C to 22.1 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRotterdamSorrento
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€224-269
1 stop
RTM · 5 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
3 h 5 m
€109-195
NAP · 30 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
3 h 10 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

MeasureRotterdamSorrento
Official languageDutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation10 m50 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRotterdamSorrento
City population664,31115,407
People per km²2,0801,541
Museums within 10 km405
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre7711
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.