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Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour
Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola

Photos: Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Sorrento or Telluride?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Telluride for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Telluride’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, Telluride 5: Sorrento leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Sorrento 60, Telluride 38: Sorrento leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Sorrento 32, Telluride 20: Sorrento leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Sorrento 28, Telluride 20: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sorrento 80, Telluride 93: Telluride leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Sorrento 95, Telluride 30: Sorrento leads by 65 points.
Good for families. Sorrento 42, Telluride 45: Telluride leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Sorrento 58, Telluride 66: Telluride leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Sorrento 38, Telluride 25: Sorrento leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Sorrento 32, Telluride 7: Sorrento leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sorrento 20, Telluride 35: Telluride leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sorrento 48, Telluride 45: Sorrento leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sorrento and Telluride.

Your match

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

Sorrento
Best match
49match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Telluride
36match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

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

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Telluride 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.

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). Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSorrentoTelluride
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m2,667 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoTelluride
City population15,4072,607
People per km²1,5411,372
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.