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The Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves, Brisbane
BrisbaneThe Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino

Photos: Brisbane by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Brisbane 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 Brisbane for

  • families
  • getting around
  • beaches

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

Choose Naples for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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.

Beaches & swimming. Brisbane 55, Naples 50: Brisbane leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Brisbane 60, Naples 83: Naples leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Brisbane 42, Naples 87: Naples leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Brisbane 55, Naples 60: Naples leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brisbane 74, Naples 77: Naples leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Brisbane 50, Naples 96: Naples leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Brisbane 78, Naples 45: Brisbane leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Brisbane 62, Naples 54: Brisbane leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Brisbane 45, Naples 60: Naples leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Brisbane 33, Naples 63: Naples leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brisbane 55, Naples 66: Naples leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brisbane 40, Naples 44: Naples leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Brisbane and Naples.

Your match

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

Brisbane
54match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on day trips 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.

Brisbane in July

22 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Naples in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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. Brisbane: 1991-2020 normals, Brisbane (4.5 km from centre). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrisbaneNaples
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation0 m17 m
Main airportBrisbane International Airport (BNE)13 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrisbaneNaples
City population2,706,966913,462
People per km²1717,676
Museums within 10 km1665
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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). 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.

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.