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Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Sorrento or Yokohama?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Sorrento leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Sorrento 60, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Sorrento 32, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Sorrento 28, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sorrento 80, Yokohama 66: Sorrento leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Sorrento 95, Yokohama 86: Sorrento leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Sorrento 42, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 44 points.
Getting around. Sorrento 58, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Sorrento 38, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Sorrento 32, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sorrento 20, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sorrento 48, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sorrento and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Sorrento
49match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on families 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

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). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSorrentoYokohama
Official languageItalianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation50 m24 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoYokohama
City population15,4073,757,630
People per km²1,5418,585
Museums within 10 km638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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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.