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Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino

Photos: Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Medellin 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 Medellin for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Naples for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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. Medellin 5, Naples 50: Naples leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Medellin 58, Naples 83: Naples leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Medellin 42, Naples 87: Naples leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Medellin 76, Naples 60: Medellin leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Medellin 66, Naples 77: Naples leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Medellin 58, Naples 96: Naples leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Medellin 50, Naples 45: Medellin leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Medellin 55, Naples 54: Medellin leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Medellin 45, Naples 60: Naples leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Medellin 80, Naples 63: Medellin leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Medellin 42, Naples 66: Naples leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Medellin 30, Naples 44: Naples leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Medellin and Naples.

Your match

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

Medellin
51match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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.

Medellin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
133 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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

Medellin 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 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. Medellin: 1958-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Medellin / Olaya Herrera (5.2 km from centre). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMedellinNaples
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number123112
Elevation1,405 m17 m
Main airportJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMedellinNaples
City population2,529,403913,462
People per km²6,6447,676
Museums within 10 km1465
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.