VacationSelector

Cologne or Naples?

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

Your match

Cologne
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

CologneNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 76 points.76
CologneNaples
Score076
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km4029
Coast distance256 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 26 points.26
CologneNaples
Score7246
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1421,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km357
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 18 points.18
CologneNaples
Score6078
Museums within 10 km4784
Museums within 2 km of centre2768
Share of museums within 2 km %5781
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Naples leads by 2 points.2
CologneNaples
Score6466
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1071,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6669
Nightclubs within 4 km9040
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 34 points.34
CologneNaples
Score7137
Protected land share 50 km %537
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km118 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 31 points.31
CologneNaples
Score7241
Tourist attractions within 2 km4311
Park area within 2 km118 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km63
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 25 points.25
CologneNaples
Score5378
Notable places within 2 km81351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 8 points.8
CologneNaples
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 13 points.13
CologneNaples
Score6073
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Cologne
No coastline within reach
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCologneNaples
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€81-121
CGN · 15 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 45 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
3 h 25 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureCologneNaples
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation59 m17 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneNaples
City population1,024,621913,462
People per km²2,5307,676
Museums within 10 km4065
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre8431
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.