VacationSelector

Lucerne or Naples?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

LucerneNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 76 points.76
LucerneNaples
Score076
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1629
Coast distance669 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Lucerne leads by 1 points.1
LucerneNaples
Score4746
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km257
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 38 points.38
LucerneNaples
Score4078
Museums within 10 km2384
Museums within 2 km of centre1368
Share of museums within 2 km %5781
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Naples leads by 38 points.38
LucerneNaples
Score2866
Drinking venues within 4 km2021,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7569
Nightclubs within 4 km1140
Nature & day trips. Naples leads by 12 points.12
LucerneNaples
Score2537
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km29 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 3 points.3
LucerneNaples
Score3841
Tourist attractions within 2 km1511
Park area within 2 km29 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 43 points.43
LucerneNaples
Score3578
Notable places within 2 km29351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 33 points.33
LucerneNaples
Score3568
Price level global110.564.9
Daily budget€248€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 20 points.20
LucerneNaples
Score5373
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months03
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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
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. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLucerneNaples
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
5 h 35 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

MeasureLucerneNaples
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshItalian
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation436 m17 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneNaples
City population86,234913,462
People per km²2,9637,676
Museums within 10 km1465
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre4631
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.