VacationSelector

Helsinki or Naples?

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

Your match

Helsinki
57
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

HelsinkiNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 16 points.16
HelsinkiNaples
Score6076
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km15729
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 25 points.25
HelsinkiNaples
Score7146
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0051,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km387
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 29 points.29
HelsinkiNaples
Score4978
Museums within 10 km5784
Museums within 2 km of centre2368
Share of museums within 2 km %4081
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Naples leads by 10 points.10
HelsinkiNaples
Score5666
Drinking venues within 4 km8071,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre607964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7569
Nightclubs within 4 km4040
Nature & day trips. Helsinki leads by 5 points.5
HelsinkiNaples
Score4237
Protected land share 50 km %37
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5356
Park area within 2 km185 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 17 points.17
HelsinkiNaples
Score5841
Tourist attractions within 2 km2011
Park area within 2 km185 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 5 points.5
HelsinkiNaples
Score7378
Notable places within 2 km257351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 12 points.12
HelsinkiNaples
Score5668
Price level global81.664.9
Daily budget€184€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 25 points.25
HelsinkiNaples
Score4873
Monthly daytime high-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 84 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months33
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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
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. Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromHelsinkiNaples
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 0 m
€144-161
HEL · 16 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€206-225
HEL · 16 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
4 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 84 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

MeasureHelsinkiNaples
Official languageFinnish, SwedishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m17 m
Main airportHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHelsinkiNaples
City population694,392913,462
People per km²3,2397,676
Museums within 10 km7465
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre7831
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. 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.