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Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
HonoluluPalms on Waikiki Beach
The coloured houses stepping down to the sea, Positano
PositanoThe coloured houses stepping down to the sea

Photos: Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License; Positano by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Honolulu or Positano?

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

  • families
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Positano for

  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Positano’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, Positano 77: Honolulu leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Honolulu 70, Positano 40: Honolulu leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Honolulu 55, Positano 22: Honolulu leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Honolulu 45, Positano 22: Honolulu leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Honolulu 88, Positano 80: Honolulu leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Honolulu 38, Positano 88: Positano leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Honolulu 80, Positano 28: Honolulu leads by 52 points.
Getting around. Honolulu 52, Positano 35: Honolulu leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Honolulu 60, Positano 45: Honolulu leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Honolulu 15, Positano 10: Honolulu leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Honolulu 40, Positano 15: Honolulu leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Honolulu 50, Positano 45: Honolulu leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Honolulu and Positano.

Your match

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

Honolulu
Best match
57match

Wins on families and culture and sights with your weighting.

Positano
42match

Wins on day trips 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

Positano in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
27 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

Positano's temperatures are measured 25 km from the centre, at Capri.

Positano 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.

Positano's sunshine is measured 59 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). Positano: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (25.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHonoluluPositano
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 m142 m
Main airportDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)33 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHonoluluPositano
City population350,9643,729
People per km²1,981429
Museums within 10 km1210
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.