VacationSelector

Madrid or Naples?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

MadridNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 76 points.76
MadridNaples
Score076
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km429
Coast distance305 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 37 points.37
MadridNaples
Score8346
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,5081,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km287
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 3 points.3
MadridNaples
Score7578
Museums within 10 km9784
Museums within 2 km of centre5968
Share of museums within 2 km %6181
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 15 points.15
MadridNaples
Score8166
Drinking venues within 4 km2,4141,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6269
Nightclubs within 4 km34140
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 26 points.26
MadridNaples
Score6337
Protected land share 50 km %197
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km187 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 36 points.36
MadridNaples
Score7741
Tourist attractions within 2 km6111
Park area within 2 km187 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 3 points.3
MadridNaples
Score7578
Notable places within 2 km288351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 3 points.3
MadridNaples
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 1 points.1
MadridNaples
Score7273
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months73
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridNaples
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 14 km
3 h 0 m
€187-245
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
5 h 5 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
3 h 25 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

MeasureMadridNaples
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation663 m17 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridNaples
City population3,506,730913,462
People per km²5,8017,676
Museums within 10 km8865
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre10631
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.