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Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Sorrento or Tunis?

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
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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 and Tunis are level on 60.
Food & drink. Sorrento and Tunis are level on 60.
Culture & sights. Sorrento 32, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Sorrento 28, Tunis 33: Tunis leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sorrento 80, Tunis 45: Sorrento leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Sorrento 95, Tunis 77: Sorrento leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Sorrento 42, Tunis 38: Sorrento leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Sorrento 58, Tunis 48: Sorrento leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Sorrento 38, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Sorrento 32, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sorrento 20, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sorrento 48, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sorrento and Tunis.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSorrentoTunis
Official languageItalianArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation50 m4 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoTunis
City population15,407602,560
People per km²1,5412,834
Museums within 10 km616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.