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Catania or Kathmandu?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
Catania

Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
Kathmandu

Photo: Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Kathmandu
48
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

CataniaKathmandu
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 68 points.68
Food & drink. Catania leads by 22 points.22
Culture & sights. Kathmandu leads by 20 points.20
Nightlife. Catania leads by 24 points.24
Nature & outdoors. Catania leads by 13 points.13
Day trips. Catania leads by 28 points.28
Good for families. Catania leads by 30 points.30
Getting around. Catania leads by 23 points.23
Shopping & style. Kathmandu leads by 13 points.13
Affordability. Kathmandu leads by 37 points.37
Live music & performing arts. Catania leads by 27 points.27
Wellness & relaxation. Kathmandu leads by 15 points.15
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Catania and Kathmandu.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyCataniaKathmandu
Daytime high34 °C29 °C
Night-time low19 °C20 °C
Rainfall in the month9 mm384 mm
Sunshine11 hours a day4 hours a day
Sea temperature25 °CNo sea
Daylight15 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
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Daytime high, °C
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Kathmandu
19
22
26
29
29
29
29
29
28
27
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Kathmandu
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Kathmandu
16
23
37
57
113
260
384
317
211
48
7
10
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Kathmandu
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
Kathmandu
6
6
7
7
7
5
4
4
5
7
7
7

Where the figures come from

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCataniaKathmandu
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
4 h 10 m
€400-446
KTM · 4 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 km
6 h 55 m
€583-665
1 stop
KTM · 4 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureCataniaKathmandu
Official languageItalianNepali
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+5:45
Emergency number112Police 100, ambulance 102, fire 101
Elevation7 m1,300 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaKathmandu
City population311,584845,767
People per km²1,70417,121
Museums within 10 km259
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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Sources

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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.