Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.
Belfast or Naples?
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 Belfast for
- families
- getting around
What lies behind each score is written up on Belfast’s own page.
Choose Naples for
- food and drink
- culture and sights
- beaches
What lies behind each score is written up on Naples’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Naples.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.
Wins on food and drink and culture and sights with your weighting.
What matters to you?
When should you go?
Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.
Belfast in July
Naples in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
Where the figures come from
Naples 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.
Naples's sunshine is measured 28 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.
Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Belfast | Naples |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | English | Italian |
| Currency | Pound Sterling (GBP) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | G230 V, 50 Hz | CFL230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Left | Right |
| Time zone | UTC, UTC+1 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 or 999 | 112 |
| Elevation | 3 m | 17 m |
| Main airport | George Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinations | Naples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 10 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Belfast | Naples |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 345,006 | 913,462 |
| People per km² | 3,000 | 7,676 |
| Museums within 10 km | 8 | 65 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 1 | 5 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | None | 5 months |
Where else could you go?
Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Belfast or Naples somewhere new.