VacationSelector

Boston or Naples?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Boston
55
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

BostonNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 16 points.16
BostonNaples
Score6076
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km6829
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 27 points.27
BostonNaples
Score7346
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4521,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km327
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 35 points.35
BostonNaples
Score4378
Museums within 10 km7984
Museums within 2 km of centre2768
Share of museums within 2 km %3481
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Naples leads by 8 points.8
BostonNaples
Score5866
Drinking venues within 4 km8861,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5869
Nightclubs within 4 km4340
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 16 points.16
BostonNaples
Score5337
Protected land share 50 km %127
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7756
Park area within 2 km116 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 12 points.12
BostonNaples
Score5341
Tourist attractions within 2 km2811
Park area within 2 km116 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 20 points.20
BostonNaples
Score5878
Notable places within 2 km111351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 25 points.25
BostonNaples
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 17 points.17
BostonNaples
Score5673
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months03
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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonNaples
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
7 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
3 h 5 m
€109-195
NAP · 7 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

MeasureBostonNaples
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m17 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonNaples
City population675,647913,462
People per km²2,9107,676
Museums within 10 km5165
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre7431
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.