VacationSelector

Cancun or Naples?

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

Your match

Cancun
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

CancunNaples
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 21 points.21
CancunNaples
Score9776
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km2329
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Cancun leads by 8 points.8
CancunNaples
Score5446
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6811,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km187
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 58 points.58
CancunNaples
Score2078
Museums within 10 km184
Museums within 2 km of centre168
Share of museums within 2 km %10081
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Naples leads by 30 points.30
CancunNaples
Score3666
Drinking venues within 4 km2701,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6569
Nightclubs within 4 km3340
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 17 points.17
CancunNaples
Score5437
Protected land share 50 km %97
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4556
Park area within 2 km66 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 9 points.9
CancunNaples
Score3241
Tourist attractions within 2 km211
Park area within 2 km66 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 74 points.74
CancunNaples
Score478
Notable places within 2 km5351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 8 points.8
CancunNaples
Score7668
Price level global54.264.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 8 points.8
CancunNaples
Score8173
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months13
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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
No sunshine record
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. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCancunNaples
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
MadridMAD
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
3 h 35 m
€328-337
CUN · 14 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 25 m
€313-363
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
12 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
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 2026-08 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

MeasureCancunNaples
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m17 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunNaples
City population888,797913,462
People per km²7,676
Museums within 10 km165
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3131
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.