VacationSelector

Naples or Florence?

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

Your match

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Florence
55
match

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

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Florence if museums and the range of kitchens matter more than the sea: it has more museums than Naples, and more attractions and park space near the centre for families.

Choose Naples if you want to swim and to be out late: 29 beaches sit within reach, the sea is warm enough for 5 months, and there are about twice as many places to drink.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

NaplesFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 76 points.76
NaplesFlorence
Score760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km290
Coast distance1 km78 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Florence leads by 13 points.13
NaplesFlorence
Score4659
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2441,299
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km715
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 4 points.4
NaplesFlorence
Score7882
Museums within 10 km84132
Museums within 2 km of centre6893
Share of museums within 2 km %8170
Unesco sites within 50 km54
Nightlife. Naples leads by 10 points.10
NaplesFlorence
Score6656
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964599
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6973
Nightclubs within 4 km4034
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 1 points.1
NaplesFlorence
Score3738
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km41 hectares86 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 11 points.11
NaplesFlorence
Score4152
Tourist attractions within 2 km1130
Park area within 2 km41 hectares86 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 3 points.3
NaplesFlorence
Score7875
Notable places within 2 km351292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples and Florence are level on 68.
NaplesFlorence
Score6868
Price level global64.964.9
Daily budget€155€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 5 points.5
NaplesFlorence
Score7368
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C10.8 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months32
0255075100

Where they differ

Florence has about twice as many museums as Naples, about three times as many tourist attractions near the centre, and more park space there too. Restaurant numbers near the centre are similar, but Florence offers a much wider range of kitchens.

Naples has 29 beaches nearby where Florence has none, and 5 months with the sea at 21°C or more, peaking at 26°C. It also has about twice as many places to drink, somewhat more nightclubs, and 3 theme parks within reach.

Where they are alike

Neither city is a base for open country: protected land covers 9% of the area around Florence and 7% around Naples, and both are short on day trips into nature.

Both keep their notable places within walking distance of the centre, and both are heavy on heritage, with 5 UNESCO-listed sites within day-trip reach of Naples and 4 of Florence. Winters are mild in both, with coolest highs of 11-13°C.

Which traveller are you?

If you're travelling for art and heritage, Florence is the clearer choice: more museums than Naples, attractions concentrated near the centre, and the wider choice of kitchens when you stop to eat.

If the point is swimming and late evenings, Naples: 29 beaches nearby, sea at 21°C or more for 5 months, and about twice as many places to drink, most of them near the centre.

Families are better served in Florence, with more attractions and park space near the centre, unless theme parks are the draw: Naples has 3 within reach and Florence none.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value figure is a national price level, identical for both by construction, so the comparison carries no information about which city costs less. The €155 daily budget beside it is one national estimate rather than a measurement of either place.

Naples's beach appeal rests on 5 months of warm sea, which are also the months most people travel. In Florence the driest months, July and August, are also the hottest at 32-33°C, so the driest window and the most comfortable one are not the same.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Florence
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Florence is at its best from May to June at 24-29°C, before the heat peaks at 33°C in July and August, which are also the driest months. September stays warm but turns wet, and October to November bring 125-132mm.

Naples works from June to September, with highs of 28-31°C, midsummer rain down to 17-18mm and a sea warm enough to swim in. November is the month to avoid, the wettest of its year at 159mm, and the cooler months are wetter here than in Florence.

Getting there

Flying fromNaplesFlorence
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
EBA · 139 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
3 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 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

MeasureNaplesFlorence
Official languageItalianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m50 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesFlorence
City population913,462360,930
People per km²7,6763,528
Museums within 10 km65140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km54
Distinct cuisines in the centre3162
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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.