VacationSelector

Sorrento or Tokyo?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

SorrentoTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 56 points.56
SorrentoTokyo
Score7721
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km781
Coast distance0 km5 km
Water distance0 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 71 points.71
SorrentoTokyo
Score1990
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2496,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km525
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 29 points.29
SorrentoTokyo
Score3766
Museums within 10 km7302
Museums within 2 km of centre452
Share of museums within 2 km %5717
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 73 points.73
SorrentoTokyo
Score2295
Drinking venues within 4 km1796,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1313,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7344
Nightclubs within 4 km258
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 35 points.35
SorrentoTokyo
Score2358
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4285
Park area within 2 km4 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 66 points.66
SorrentoTokyo
Score571
Tourist attractions within 2 km240
Park area within 2 km4 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km19
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 50 points.50
SorrentoTokyo
Score1060
Notable places within 2 km7121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 2 points.2
SorrentoTokyo
Score6870
Price level global64.962.4
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 9 points.9
SorrentoTokyo
Score7364
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm57 mm to 237 mm
Dry months30
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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSorrentoTokyo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 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

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 centre97 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 km5191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre11125
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.