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Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Sorrento or Tromso?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Tromso for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Sorrento leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Sorrento 60, Tromso 36: Sorrento leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Sorrento 32, Tromso 27: Sorrento leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Sorrento 28, Tromso 38: Tromso leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sorrento 80, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Sorrento 95, Tromso 14: Sorrento leads by 81 points.
Good for families. Sorrento 42, Tromso 45: Tromso leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Sorrento 58, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Sorrento 38, Tromso 15: Sorrento leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Sorrento 32, Tromso 11: Sorrento leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sorrento 20, Tromso 32: Tromso leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sorrento 48, Tromso 38: Sorrento leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sorrento and Tromso.

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.

Tromso
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSorrentoTromso
Official languageItalianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation50 m20 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoTromso
City population15,40779,943
People per km²1,54132
Museums within 10 km68
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.