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Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Sorrento or Tel Aviv?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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, Tel Aviv 86: Tel Aviv leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Sorrento 60, Tel Aviv 80: Tel Aviv leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Sorrento 32, Tel Aviv 57: Tel Aviv leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Sorrento 28, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sorrento 80, Tel Aviv 52: Sorrento leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Sorrento 95, Tel Aviv 84: Sorrento leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Sorrento 42, Tel Aviv 68: Tel Aviv leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Sorrento 58, Tel Aviv 64: Tel Aviv leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Sorrento 38, Tel Aviv 55: Tel Aviv leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Sorrento 32, Tel Aviv 14: Sorrento leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sorrento 20, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sorrento 48, Tel Aviv 35: Sorrento leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sorrento and Tel Aviv.

Your match

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

Sorrento
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

Tel Aviv
Best match
62match

Wins on nightlife 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

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 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). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSorrentoTel Aviv
Official languageItalianHebrew
CurrencyEuro (EUR)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 100, fire 102
Elevation50 m5 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoTel Aviv
City population15,407467,875
People per km²1,5418,998
Museums within 10 km698
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months7 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). 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.

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.