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Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Sorrento or Tokyo?

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

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Sorrento leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Sorrento 60, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Sorrento 32, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Sorrento 28, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sorrento 80, Tokyo 68: Sorrento leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Sorrento 95, Tokyo 85: Sorrento leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Sorrento 42, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 53 points.
Getting around. Sorrento 58, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Sorrento 38, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 61 points.
Affordability. Sorrento 32, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sorrento 20, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 66 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sorrento 48, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sorrento and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Sorrento
49match

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

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSorrentoTokyo
Official languageItalianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation50 m6 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoTokyo
City population15,40714,264,798
People per km²1,5416,501
Museums within 10 km6192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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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.