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Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

Photos: Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tallinn by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Sorrento or Tallinn?

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 Sorrento for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Tallinn for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’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. Sorrento 60, Tallinn 28: Sorrento leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Sorrento 60, Tallinn 52: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Sorrento 32, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Sorrento 28, Tallinn 44: Tallinn leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sorrento 80, Tallinn 55: Sorrento leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Sorrento 95, Tallinn 58: Sorrento leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Sorrento 42, Tallinn 60: Tallinn leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Sorrento 58, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Sorrento 38, Tallinn 40: Tallinn leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Sorrento 32, Tallinn 47: Tallinn leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sorrento 20, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sorrento 48, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sorrento and Tallinn.

Your match

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

Sorrento
49match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Tallinn
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 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. Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSorrentoTallinn
Official languageItalianEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m28 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoTallinn
City population15,407457,572
People per km²1,5412,871
Museums within 10 km616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.