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Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Sorrento or Yogyakarta?

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
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: Sorrento leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Sorrento 60, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Sorrento 32, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Sorrento 28, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sorrento 80, Yogyakarta 72: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Sorrento 95, Yogyakarta 78: Sorrento leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Sorrento 42, Yogyakarta 40: Sorrento leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Sorrento 58, Yogyakarta 35: Sorrento leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Sorrento 38, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Sorrento 32, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sorrento 20, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sorrento 48, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sorrento and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Sorrento
49match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and live music and the arts 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

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 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.

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSorrentoYogyakarta
Official languageItalianIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m113 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoYogyakarta
City population15,407422,732
People per km²1,54113,007
Museums within 10 km638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.