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Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Savannah 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 Savannah for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’s own page.

Choose Sorrento for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Savannah 55, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Savannah 58, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Savannah 68, Sorrento 32: Savannah leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Savannah 52, Sorrento 28: Savannah leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Savannah 48, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Savannah 60, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Savannah 50, Sorrento 42: Savannah leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Savannah and Sorrento are level on 58.
Shopping & style. Savannah 42, Sorrento 38: Savannah leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Savannah 35, Sorrento 32: Savannah leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Savannah 40, Sorrento 20: Savannah leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Savannah 40, Sorrento 48: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Savannah and Sorrento.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Savannah
51match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Sorrento
49match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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. Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSavannahSorrento
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation15 m50 m
Main airportSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSavannahSorrento
City population147,78015,407
People per km²5241,541
Museums within 10 km196
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months5 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. 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.

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.