VacationSelector

Seattle or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration 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.

SeattleSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 17 points.17
SeattleSorrento
Score6077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km10078
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 56 points.56
SeattleSorrento
Score7519
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,460249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km355
Museums & heritage. Sorrento leads by 1 points.1
SeattleSorrento
Score3637
Museums within 10 km287
Museums within 2 km of centre174
Share of museums within 2 km %6157
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 35 points.35
SeattleSorrento
Score5722
Drinking venues within 4 km873179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre696131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8073
Nightclubs within 4 km342
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 17 points.17
SeattleSorrento
Score4023
Protected land share 50 km %97
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8042
Park area within 2 km63 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 41 points.41
SeattleSorrento
Score465
Tourist attractions within 2 km172
Park area within 2 km63 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 42 points.42
SeattleSorrento
Score5210
Notable places within 2 km767
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 25 points.25
SeattleSorrento
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 12 points.12
SeattleSorrento
Score6173
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months33
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
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
Seattle
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. Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromSeattleSorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
10 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 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 2026-08 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

MeasureSeattleSorrento
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
Elevation40 m50 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleSorrento
City population737,01515,407
People per km²1,9961,541
Museums within 10 km275
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre7811
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Seattle or Sorrento somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.