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The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino

Photos: Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Manchester or Naples?

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 Manchester for

  • getting around
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Naples for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples’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. Manchester 9, Naples 50: Naples leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Manchester 51, Naples 83: Naples leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Manchester 50, Naples 87: Naples leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Manchester 72, Naples 60: Manchester leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manchester 64, Naples 77: Naples leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Manchester 77, Naples 96: Naples leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Manchester 58, Naples 45: Manchester leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Manchester 68, Naples 54: Manchester leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Manchester 62, Naples 60: Manchester leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Manchester 42, Naples 63: Naples leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manchester 74, Naples 66: Manchester leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manchester 15, Naples 44: Naples leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manchester and Naples.

Your match

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

Manchester
54match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Naples in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
23 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

Naples 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.

Naples's sunshine is measured 28 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManchesterNaples
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
Elevation38 m17 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterNaples
City population547,627913,462
People per km²4,7377,676
Museums within 10 km2865
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.