VacationSelector

Istanbul or Naples?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Istanbul
65
match

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

Naples
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

IstanbulNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 33 points.33
IstanbulNaples
Score4376
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km229
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Istanbul leads by 24 points.24
IstanbulNaples
Score7046
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,0861,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km207
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 12 points.12
IstanbulNaples
Score6678
Museums within 10 km14584
Museums within 2 km of centre7168
Share of museums within 2 km %4981
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Istanbul leads by 13 points.13
IstanbulNaples
Score7966
Drinking venues within 4 km2,2661,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,176964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5269
Nightclubs within 4 km22140
Nature & day trips. Naples leads by 12 points.12
IstanbulNaples
Score2537
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4856
Park area within 2 km60 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Istanbul leads by 26 points.26
IstanbulNaples
Score6741
Tourist attractions within 2 km6811
Park area within 2 km60 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 3 points.3
IstanbulNaples
Score7578
Notable places within 2 km285351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Istanbul leads by 21 points.21
IstanbulNaples
Score8968
Price level global35.264.9
Daily budget€100€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 4 points.4
IstanbulNaples
Score6973
Monthly daytime high9.2 °C to 29.7 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 101 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months43
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
Istanbul
9
10
12
17
22
27
30
30
26
21
16
11
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Istanbul
9
8
9
11
16
21
23
24
22
19
15
12
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Istanbul
74
74
66
47
29
29
23
29
43
85
79
101
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Istanbul
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Istanbul
3
3
5
6
9
10
11
10
7
5
4
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. Istanbul: 1991-2020 normals, Istanbul / Goztepe (9.9 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIstanbulNaples
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 40 m
€142-153
1 stop
IST · 36 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 35 m
€110-186
IST · 36 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 15 m
€141-223
IST · 36 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
€179-269
IST · 36 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€161-174
IST · 36 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€137-196
IST · 36 km
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
AthensATH
1 h 20 m
€128-154
IST · 36 km
1 h 45 m
€107-164
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 10 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
1 h 5 m
€36-65
NAP · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
€177-220
IST · 36 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 5 m
€608-794
IST · 36 km
9 h 0 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

MeasureIstanbulNaples
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m17 m
Main airportİstanbul Airport (IST)36 km from centre345 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIstanbulNaples
City population15,655,924913,462
People per km²2,9307,676
Museums within 10 km7265
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre6231
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.