VacationSelector

London 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, 1 point apart

London
64
match

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

Naples
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

LondonNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 76 points.76
LondonNaples
Score076
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km4729
Coast distance43 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. London leads by 42 points.42
LondonNaples
Score8846
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3171,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km407
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 6 points.6
LondonNaples
Score7278
Museums within 10 km14884
Museums within 2 km of centre4968
Share of museums within 2 km %3381
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. London leads by 29 points.29
LondonNaples
Score9566
Drinking venues within 4 km5,3271,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4669
Nightclubs within 4 km31240
Nature & day trips. London leads by 3 points.3
LondonNaples
Score4037
Protected land share 50 km %167
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9756
Park area within 2 km84 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 34 points.34
LondonNaples
Score7541
Tourist attractions within 2 km8511
Park area within 2 km84 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. London leads by 11 points.11
LondonNaples
Score8978
Notable places within 2 km649351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 14 points.14
LondonNaples
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 10 points.10
LondonNaples
Score6373
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
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
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLondonNaples
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
TurinTRN
1 h 45 m
no fares
STN · 49 km
1 h 30 m
€96-157
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 15 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 35 m
€184-208
LHR · 23 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
3 h 20 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

MeasureLondonNaples
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m17 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonNaples
City population8,799,728913,462
People per km²5,5987,676
Museums within 10 km21565
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre11631
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.