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The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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. Salt Lake City 12, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Salt Lake City 40, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Salt Lake City 42, Sorrento 32: Salt Lake City leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Salt Lake City 30, Sorrento 28: Salt Lake City leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salt Lake City 90, Sorrento 80: Salt Lake City leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Salt Lake City 34, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 61 points.
Good for families. Salt Lake City 72, Sorrento 42: Salt Lake City leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Salt Lake City 42, Sorrento 58: Sorrento leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Salt Lake City 36, Sorrento 38: Sorrento leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Salt Lake City 40, Sorrento 32: Salt Lake City leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salt Lake City 55, Sorrento 20: Salt Lake City leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salt Lake City 38, Sorrento 48: Sorrento leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salt Lake City and Sorrento.

Your match

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

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and families 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.

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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. Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSalt Lake CitySorrento
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,288 m50 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalt Lake CitySorrento
City population199,72315,407
People per km²6901,541
Museums within 10 km126
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
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). 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.

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.