VacationSelector

San Diego or Sorrento?

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

Your match

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

San DiegoSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 14 points.14
San DiegoSorrento
Score6377
Swim season months15
Beaches 10 km4278
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 44 points.44
San DiegoSorrento
Score6319
Restaurants within 2 km of centre823249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km275
Museums & heritage. San Diego leads by 7 points.7
San DiegoSorrento
Score4437
Museums within 10 km597
Museums within 2 km of centre304
Share of museums within 2 km %5157
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 28 points.28
San DiegoSorrento
Score5022
Drinking venues within 4 km615179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre408131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6673
Nightclubs within 4 km312
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 32 points.32
San DiegoSorrento
Score5523
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5242
Park area within 2 km308 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 70 points.70
San DiegoSorrento
Score755
Tourist attractions within 2 km402
Park area within 2 km308 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. San Diego leads by 30 points.30
San DiegoSorrento
Score4010
Notable places within 2 km407
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 25 points.25
San DiegoSorrento
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 15 points.15
San DiegoSorrento
Score8873
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 25 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 56 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months93
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Diego
No sunshine record
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. San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan DiegoSorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
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

MeasureSan DiegoSorrento
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation129 m50 m
Main airportSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan DiegoSorrento
City population1,386,93215,407
People per km²1,4381,541
Museums within 10 km265
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre4411
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month5 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). 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.