VacationSelector

Como or Naples?

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

Your match

Como
34
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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 Como if you want water and hills rather than a city: the land around it is largely protected, and it has more UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach than Naples does.

Choose Naples if you want a dense centre you can cross on foot, with museums, places to eat and somewhere to drink at night, plus 29 beaches and a sea warm enough to swim from June onwards.

Scoreboard

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

ComoNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 76 points.76
ComoNaples
Score076
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km829
Coast distance156 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Naples leads by 21 points.21
ComoNaples
Score2546
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2591,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km77
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 32 points.32
ComoNaples
Score4678
Museums within 10 km984
Museums within 2 km of centre668
Share of museums within 2 km %6781
Unesco sites within 50 km85
Nightlife. Naples leads by 42 points.42
ComoNaples
Score2466
Drinking venues within 4 km2131,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre143964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6769
Nightclubs within 4 km140
Nature & day trips. Como leads by 3 points.3
ComoNaples
Score4037
Protected land share 50 km %237
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km15 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 26 points.26
ComoNaples
Score1541
Tourist attractions within 2 km611
Park area within 2 km15 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 48 points.48
ComoNaples
Score3078
Notable places within 2 km22351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Como and Naples are level on 68.
ComoNaples
Score6868
Price level global64.964.9
Daily budget€155€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 15 points.15
ComoNaples
Score5873
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

Where they differ

Como's advantage is the land around it: 23% protected against 7% near Naples, and 8 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against 5. It is the choice for walking out of town rather than into it.

Naples concentrates far more into its centre: many times as many notable places within walking distance, many times as many restaurants, bars and clubs, and many more museums. It has 29 beaches nearby against Como's 8, and 5 months when the sea sits at 21°C or more.

Where they are alike

Day trips are where the two stand closest. Como leans on protected countryside, 23% of the land around it; Naples has more park space near its centre. Different in character, comparable in what a free day gives you.

They are also not far apart on climate and on eating. Both have warm summers and January as the coolest month, and although Naples has many more restaurants near its centre, the range of kitchens is similar.

Which traveller are you?

Travelling with children, Naples is the clearer choice: more attractions and more park space near the centre, 3 theme parks within reach where Como has none, and beaches to fall back on when the museums run out.

For museums and city walking, Naples again: many more museums, and far more notable places within walking distance of the centre, so days need less planning and less transport.

For quiet days outdoors, Como: 23% of the land around it is protected and 8 UNESCO-listed places sit within day-trip reach, and evenings are far quieter than in Naples.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value figure is a national price level and is identical for both by construction, so the comparison between these two cities carries no information about which costs less on the ground. The €155 daily budget beside it is one national estimate rather than a measurement of either place.

Naples's beach strength rests on high summer, which is also when heat peaks at 31°C and the coast is at its busiest. Como's warmest months are among its wettest, at around 158-172mm, so a strong summer month there is not a dry one.

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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N
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Daytime high, °C
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Como
No coastline within reach
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
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. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Como is at its best in high summer, when highs reach 27°C, though the rain does not let up, at around 158mm in those months. Winter days at 7-9°C give little reason to go.

Naples has the longer season. May and June bring 24-28°C with the rain thinning, July and August are near dry at 17-18mm with the sea at 25-26°C, and the water stays warm enough to swim into autumn, which Como cannot match at any point in the year.

Getting there

Flying fromComoNaples
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 55 m
€36-88
MXP · 34 km
1 h 5 m
€36-65
NAP · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 34 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 43 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 34 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 45 m
€27-28
MXP · 34 km
1 h 0 m
€39-94
NAP · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
4 h 10 m
€170-264
1 stop
MXP · 34 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 2026-08 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

MeasureComoNaples
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
Elevation201 m17 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoNaples
City population83,184913,462
People per km²2,2427,676
Museums within 10 km965
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km85
Distinct cuisines in the centre2231
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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.