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Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Sorrento or Vienna?

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
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Vienna for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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, Vienna 27: Sorrento leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Sorrento 60, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Sorrento 32, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Sorrento 28, Vienna 50: Vienna leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sorrento 80, Vienna 62: Sorrento leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Sorrento 95, Vienna 74: Sorrento leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Sorrento 42, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Sorrento 58, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Sorrento 38, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Sorrento 32, Vienna 44: Vienna leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sorrento 20, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 76 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sorrento 48, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sorrento and Vienna.

Your match

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

Sorrento
49match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
Best match
66match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSorrentoVienna
Official languageItalianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m151 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoVienna
City population15,4072,028,289
People per km²1,5414,890
Museums within 10 km6152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.