VacationSelector

Cardiff or Naples?

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

Your match

Cardiff
48
match

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

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

CardiffNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 30 points.30
CardiffNaples
Score4676
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km829
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 14 points.14
CardiffNaples
Score6046
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5411,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km327
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 39 points.39
CardiffNaples
Score3978
Museums within 10 km6184
Museums within 2 km of centre668
Share of museums within 2 km %1081
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Naples leads by 18 points.18
CardiffNaples
Score4866
Drinking venues within 4 km5361,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7469
Nightclubs within 4 km3540
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 13 points.13
CardiffNaples
Score5037
Protected land share 50 km %187
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6856
Park area within 2 km88 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 9 points.9
CardiffNaples
Score3241
Tourist attractions within 2 km411
Park area within 2 km88 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 33 points.33
CardiffNaples
Score4578
Notable places within 2 km51351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 14 points.14
CardiffNaples
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 19 points.19
CardiffNaples
Score5473
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffNaples
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
TurinTRN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 30 m
€96-157
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 5 m
€36-65
NAP · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
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 2026-09, 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

MeasureCardiffNaples
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m17 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffNaples
City population383,536913,462
People per km²2,7347,676
Museums within 10 km965
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre5531
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.