VacationSelector

Sorrento or Tampa?

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

Your match

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tampa
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

SorrentoTampa
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 2 points.2
SorrentoTampa
Score7775
Swim season months58
Beaches 10 km7810
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 35 points.35
SorrentoTampa
Score1954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre249359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km531
Museums & heritage. Sorrento leads by 10 points.10
SorrentoTampa
Score3727
Museums within 10 km713
Museums within 2 km of centre410
Share of museums within 2 km %5777
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Tampa leads by 17 points.17
SorrentoTampa
Score2239
Drinking venues within 4 km179324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre131227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7370
Nightclubs within 4 km226
Nature & day trips. Tampa leads by 7 points.7
SorrentoTampa
Score2330
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4272
Park area within 2 km4 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Tampa leads by 25 points.25
SorrentoTampa
Score530
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km4 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Tampa leads by 11 points.11
SorrentoTampa
Score1021
Notable places within 2 km713
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 25 points.25
SorrentoTampa
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 2 points.2
SorrentoTampa
Score7375
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months31
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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSorrentoTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
9 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 40 m
€205-247
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
10 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureSorrentoTampa
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m30 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoTampa
City population15,407384,959
People per km²1,541848
Museums within 10 km56
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre1147
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months8 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.