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Amalfi and its harbour below the cliff, Amalfi
AmalfiAmalfi and its harbour below the cliff
Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach

Photos: Amalfi by Oleksandra Zelena, Pexels License; Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amalfi or Gold Coast?

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 Amalfi for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Gold Coast for

  • families
  • nightlife
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Gold Coast’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. Amalfi 64, Gold Coast 92: Gold Coast leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Amalfi 48, Gold Coast 47: Amalfi leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Amalfi 36, Gold Coast 15: Amalfi leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Amalfi 12, Gold Coast 55: Gold Coast leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amalfi and Gold Coast are level on 82.
Day trips. Amalfi 88, Gold Coast 52: Amalfi leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Amalfi 28, Gold Coast 89: Gold Coast leads by 61 points.
Getting around. Amalfi 48, Gold Coast 45: Amalfi leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Amalfi 34, Gold Coast 40: Gold Coast leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Amalfi 18, Gold Coast 35: Gold Coast leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amalfi 22, Gold Coast 30: Gold Coast leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amalfi 32, Gold Coast 42: Gold Coast leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amalfi and Gold Coast.

Your match

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

Amalfi
43match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Gold Coast
Best match
52match

Wins on families and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amalfi in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
28 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amalfi's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Amalfi 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.

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amalfi: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (64.7 km from centre). Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmalfiGold Coast
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10
Emergency number112000
Elevation6 m12 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)38 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmalfiGold Coast
City population4,729607,665
People per km²830433
Museums within 10 km82
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.