VacationSelector

San Jose or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

San Jose
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

San JoseSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 69 points.69
San JoseSorrento
Score877
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km178
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. San Jose leads by 22 points.22
San JoseSorrento
Score4119
Restaurants within 2 km of centre313249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km165
Museums & heritage. Sorrento leads by 11 points.11
San JoseSorrento
Score2637
Museums within 10 km207
Museums within 2 km of centre94
Share of museums within 2 km %4557
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. San Jose leads by 9 points.9
San JoseSorrento
Score3122
Drinking venues within 4 km231179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3873
Nightclubs within 4 km162
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 47 points.47
San JoseSorrento
Score7023
Protected land share 50 km %267
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %9142
Park area within 2 km101 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. San Jose leads by 28 points.28
San JoseSorrento
Score335
Tourist attractions within 2 km22
Park area within 2 km101 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. San Jose leads by 4 points.4
San JoseSorrento
Score1410
Notable places within 2 km97
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 25 points.25
San JoseSorrento
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 12 points.12
San JoseSorrento
Score8573
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months83
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 Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Jose
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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan JoseSorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
5 h 35 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 2026-09 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 JoseSorrento
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
Elevation25 m50 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseSorrento
City population1,013,24015,407
People per km²2,1671,541
Museums within 10 km195
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3011
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). 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.