VacationSelector

Salzburg or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Salzburg
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

SalzburgSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
SalzburgSorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km978
Coast distance653 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Salzburg leads by 30 points.30
SalzburgSorrento
Score4919
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km235
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 23 points.23
SalzburgSorrento
Score6037
Museums within 10 km427
Museums within 2 km of centre274
Share of museums within 2 km %6457
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Salzburg leads by 14 points.14
SalzburgSorrento
Score3622
Drinking venues within 4 km294179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre241131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8273
Nightclubs within 4 km162
Nature & day trips. Salzburg leads by 4 points.4
SalzburgSorrento
Score2723
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km39 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 43 points.43
SalzburgSorrento
Score485
Tourist attractions within 2 km172
Park area within 2 km39 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 36 points.36
SalzburgSorrento
Score4610
Notable places within 2 km547
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 9 points.9
SalzburgSorrento
Score5968
Price level global76.964.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 19 points.19
SalzburgSorrento
Score5473
Monthly daytime high3.4 °C to 24.9 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
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. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSalzburgSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
1 h 45 m
€107-164
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 5 m
€183-262
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 5 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
3 h 25 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

MeasureSalzburgSorrento
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageItalian
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 number112112
Elevation424 m50 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgSorrento
City population155,02115,407
People per km²2,3601,541
Museums within 10 km385
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre5011
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.