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Sorrento or West Palm Beach?

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 value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

SorrentoWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 11 points.11
SorrentoWest Palm Beach
Score7788
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km7810
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. West Palm Beach leads by 18 points.18
SorrentoWest Palm Beach
Score1937
Restaurants within 2 km of centre249262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km514
Museums & heritage. Sorrento leads by 20 points.20
SorrentoWest Palm Beach
Score3717
Museums within 10 km75
Museums within 2 km of centre43
Share of museums within 2 km %5760
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Sorrento leads by 2 points.2
SorrentoWest Palm Beach
Score2220
Drinking venues within 4 km179132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre13190
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7368
Nightclubs within 4 km210
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 46 points.46
SorrentoWest Palm Beach
Score2369
Protected land share 50 km %715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4245
Park area within 2 km4 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.16
SorrentoWest Palm Beach
Score521
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km4 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.2
SorrentoWest Palm Beach
Score1012
Notable places within 2 km78
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 25 points.25
SorrentoWest Palm Beach
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.2
SorrentoWest Palm Beach
Score7375
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSorrentoWest Palm Beach
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
9 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 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

MeasureSorrentoWest Palm Beach
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m6 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoWest Palm Beach
City population15,407117,415
People per km²1,541786
Museums within 10 km54
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre1118
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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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.