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Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Sorrento or Warsaw?

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 Warsaw for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Sorrento leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Sorrento and Warsaw are level on 60.
Culture & sights. Sorrento 32, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Sorrento 28, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sorrento 80, Warsaw 47: Sorrento leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Sorrento 95, Warsaw 52: Sorrento leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Sorrento 42, Warsaw 62: Warsaw leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Sorrento 58, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Sorrento 38, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Sorrento 32, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sorrento 20, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sorrento 48, Warsaw 35: Sorrento leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sorrento and Warsaw.

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.

Warsaw
Best match
55match

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

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSorrentoWarsaw
Official languageItalianPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m118 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoWarsaw
City population15,4071,862,402
People per km²1,5413,601
Museums within 10 km6117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
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. 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.