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The pastel houses of Rainbow Row, Charleston
CharlestonThe pastel houses of Rainbow Row
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino

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

Charleston 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 Charleston for

  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Naples for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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. Charleston 72, Naples 50: Charleston leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Charleston 72, Naples 83: Naples leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Charleston 64, Naples 87: Naples leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Charleston 44, Naples 60: Naples leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Charleston 55, Naples 77: Naples leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Charleston 62, Naples 96: Naples leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Charleston 60, Naples 45: Charleston leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Charleston 46, Naples 54: Naples leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Charleston 55, Naples 60: Naples leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Charleston 27, Naples 63: Naples leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Charleston 42, Naples 66: Naples leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Charleston 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: Charleston and Naples.

Your match

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

Charleston
53match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Charleston in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
167 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 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. Charleston: 1991-2020 normals, Charleston Airport (16.1 km from centre). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCharlestonNaples
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation6 m17 m
Main airportCharleston International Airport (CHS)16 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCharlestonNaples
City population150,227913,462
People per km²5327,676
Museums within 10 km1965
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months5 months

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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.