VacationSelector

Sorrento or Vancouver?

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

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips 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.

SorrentoVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 17 points.17
SorrentoVancouver
Score7760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km78109
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 55 points.55
SorrentoVancouver
Score1974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2491,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km535
Museums & heritage. Sorrento leads by 3 points.3
SorrentoVancouver
Score3734
Museums within 10 km727
Museums within 2 km of centre415
Share of museums within 2 km %5756
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 35 points.35
SorrentoVancouver
Score2257
Drinking venues within 4 km179848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre131602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7371
Nightclubs within 4 km244
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 54 points.54
SorrentoVancouver
Score2377
Protected land share 50 km %719
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4260
Park area within 2 km4 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 48 points.48
SorrentoVancouver
Score553
Tourist attractions within 2 km215
Park area within 2 km4 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 38 points.38
SorrentoVancouver
Score1048
Notable places within 2 km763
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 14 points.14
SorrentoVancouver
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 20 points.20
SorrentoVancouver
Score7353
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromSorrentoVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 40 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 40 m
€205-247
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 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

MeasureSorrentoVancouver
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m2 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoVancouver
City population15,407662,248
People per km²1,5415,759
Museums within 10 km526
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre1185
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.