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Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
HonoluluPalms on Waikiki Beach
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino

Photos: Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License; Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Honolulu or Naples?

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 Honolulu for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Naples for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples’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. Honolulu 91, Naples 50: Honolulu leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Honolulu 70, Naples 83: Naples leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Honolulu 55, Naples 87: Naples leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Honolulu 45, Naples 60: Naples leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Honolulu 88, Naples 77: Honolulu leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Honolulu 38, Naples 96: Naples leads by 58 points.
Good for families. Honolulu 80, Naples 45: Honolulu leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Honolulu 52, Naples 54: Naples leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Honolulu and Naples are level on 60.
Affordability. Honolulu 15, Naples 63: Naples leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Honolulu 40, Naples 66: Naples leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Honolulu 50, Naples 44: Honolulu leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Honolulu and Naples.

Your match

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

Honolulu
57match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Honolulu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Naples in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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 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.

Naples's sunshine is measured 28 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHonoluluNaples
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-10UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m17 m
Main airportDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHonoluluNaples
City population350,964913,462
People per km²1,9817,676
Museums within 10 km1265
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.