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Naples Pier over turquoise water, Naples, Florida
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Durban or Naples, Florida?

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 Durban for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Naples, Florida for

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples, Florida’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. Durban 80, Naples, Florida 87: Naples, Florida leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Durban 60, Naples, Florida 46: Durban leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, Naples, Florida 27: Durban leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Durban 40, Naples, Florida 20: Durban leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, Naples, Florida 66: Durban leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, Naples, Florida 43: Naples, Florida leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Durban 60, Naples, Florida 64: Naples, Florida leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Durban 20, Naples, Florida 22: Naples, Florida leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, Naples, Florida 48: Naples, Florida leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, Naples, Florida 17: Durban leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban and Naples, Florida are level on 40.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, Naples, Florida 45: Naples, Florida leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and Naples, Florida.

Your match

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

Durban
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Naples, Florida
44match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Naples, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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, Florida 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre). Naples, Florida: 2002-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Naples / East Naples (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDurbanNaples, Florida
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language-
CurrencyRand (ZAR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation22 m-2 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)43 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanNaples, Florida
City population595,06119,115
People per km²2,634450
Museums within 10 km14
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months10 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.