VacationSelector

Catania or Naples?

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

Your match

Catania
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and places to eat with your weighting.

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

The verdict

Choose Catania if you want warmth first: highs of 16-35°C across the year and more dry months, with a small set of beaches and eating that spans a wider range of kitchens.

Choose Naples if you want a city you can walk: far more notable places within reach of the centre, roughly twice the museums, more bars and clubs, and 29 beaches nearby.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CataniaNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 18 points.18
CataniaNaples
Score5876
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km529
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Catania leads by 3 points.3
CataniaNaples
Score4946
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6371,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km147
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 19 points.19
CataniaNaples
Score5978
Museums within 10 km3484
Museums within 2 km of centre2768
Share of museums within 2 km %7981
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Naples leads by 19 points.19
CataniaNaples
Score4766
Drinking venues within 4 km5371,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7569
Nightclubs within 4 km1840
Nature & day trips. Naples leads by 6 points.6
CataniaNaples
Score3137
Protected land share 50 km %107
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6156
Park area within 2 km11 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 5 points.5
CataniaNaples
Score3641
Tourist attractions within 2 km2511
Park area within 2 km11 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 39 points.39
CataniaNaples
Score3978
Notable places within 2 km37351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania and Naples are level on 68.
CataniaNaples
Score6868
Price level global64.964.9
Daily budget€155€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 4 points.4
CataniaNaples
Score7773
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months53
0255075100

Where they differ

Catania runs the warmer of the two, with daytime highs of 16-35°C across the year against Naples's 13-31°C, and more months that stay dry. Its eating leans to variety rather than volume, with a wider spread of kitchens.

Naples packs many times as many notable places into walking distance of the centre, holds about twice as many museums and puts 5 UNESCO-listed places within a day trip against Catania's 3. It also has about three times as many places to drink, and 29 beaches nearby against Catania's 5.

Where they are alike

Neither city is short of somewhere to eat, though they get there differently: Naples has about twice as many restaurants near the centre, while Catania's are drawn from a wider range of kitchens.

Both are middling for families and day trips. Naples has more park space near the centre and 3 theme parks within reach against Catania's 1, while Catania has more attractions in the centre and 10% protected land around it against 7%.

Which traveller are you?

If you want museums and monuments on foot, Naples: many times as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, twice the museums, and 5 UNESCO-listed sites within day-trip reach against Catania's 3.

If you travel in the shoulder months and want warmth and variety on the plate, Catania: highs of 16-35°C across the year, more dry months, and a wider range of kitchens than Naples.

If the trip is swimming by day and drinking by night, Naples: 29 beaches nearby against Catania's 5, the sea 1km from both centres, and about three times as many places to drink.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value figure is a national price level shared by both cities, so it is identical by construction and tells you nothing about which trip costs less. The daily budget of €155 is one national estimate rather than a measurement of Catania or Naples, and should not be read as a trait of either.

Naples's larger beach count is about choice, not season: both have the sea 1km from the centre and the same length of swimming season, and both peak with the sea at 26°C in August, the month when Catania's air reaches 35°C.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Catania peaks in May, when highs reach 26°C and rain is down to 18mm, and it holds up in April and October; October still gives 26°C days and sea at 23°C, though rain returns at 51mm. December is its wettest at 83mm.

Naples is at its best from June to August, with 28°C in June and 31°C in July on 17mm of rain, and the sea at 26°C in August. Its autumn turns heavy, 159mm in November.

Getting there

Flying fromCataniaNaples
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
1 h 20 m
€39-65
NAP · 7 km
TurinTRN
1 h 55 m
€37-118
CTA · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€96-157
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
€89-123
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
3 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
9 h 0 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCataniaNaples
Official languageItalianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m17 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaNaples
City population311,584913,462
People per km²1,7047,676
Museums within 10 km2565
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre3031
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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.

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.