VacationSelector

Ghent or Naples?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

GhentNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 50 points.50
GhentNaples
Score2676
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km829
Coast distance32 km1 km
Water distance32 km1 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 24 points.24
GhentNaples
Score7046
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7641,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km497
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 20 points.20
GhentNaples
Score5878
Museums within 10 km2484
Museums within 2 km of centre2068
Share of museums within 2 km %8381
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Naples leads by 17 points.17
GhentNaples
Score4966
Drinking venues within 4 km5701,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7869
Nightclubs within 4 km2640
Nature & day trips. Naples leads by 3 points.3
GhentNaples
Score3437
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8756
Park area within 2 km84 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 9 points.9
GhentNaples
Score5041
Tourist attractions within 2 km1911
Park area within 2 km84 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 32 points.32
GhentNaples
Score4678
Notable places within 2 km55351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 8 points.8
GhentNaples
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 17 points.17
GhentNaples
Score5673
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months13
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentNaples
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 56 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
5 h 35 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

MeasureGhentNaples
Official languageFrench, German, DutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation12 m17 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentNaples
City population272,657913,462
People per km²1,7287,676
Museums within 10 km3065
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre8331
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.