VacationSelector

Sorrento or Zurich?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Zurich
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

SorrentoZurich
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
SorrentoZurich
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km7823
Coast distance0 km632 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 48 points.48
SorrentoZurich
Score1967
Restaurants within 2 km of centre249974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km530
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 19 points.19
SorrentoZurich
Score3756
Museums within 10 km776
Museums within 2 km of centre437
Share of museums within 2 km %5749
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 32 points.32
SorrentoZurich
Score2254
Drinking venues within 4 km179676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre131553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7382
Nightclubs within 4 km274
Nature & day trips. Zurich leads by 14 points.14
SorrentoZurich
Score2337
Protected land share 50 km %716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km4 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Zurich leads by 31 points.31
SorrentoZurich
Score536
Tourist attractions within 2 km28
Park area within 2 km4 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 49 points.49
SorrentoZurich
Score1059
Notable places within 2 km7119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 33 points.33
SorrentoZurich
Score6835
Price level global64.9110.5
Daily budget€155€248
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 20 points.20
SorrentoZurich
Score7353
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromSorrentoZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
55 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 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

MeasureSorrentoZurich
Official languageItalianFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m408 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureSorrentoZurich
City population15,407452,421
People per km²1,5415,147
Museums within 10 km563
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre1178
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.