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Naples Pier over turquoise water, Naples, Florida
Naples, FloridaNaples Pier over turquoise water
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Naples, Florida by William “Patrick” Ma…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Naples, Florida or Nice?

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 Naples, Florida for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples, Florida’s own page.

Choose Nice for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’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. Naples, Florida 87, Nice 75: Naples, Florida leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Naples, Florida 46, Nice 66: Nice leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Naples, Florida 27, Nice 64: Nice leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Naples, Florida 20, Nice 47: Nice leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples, Florida 66, Nice 80: Nice leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Naples, Florida 43, Nice 87: Nice leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Naples, Florida 64, Nice 57: Naples, Florida leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Naples, Florida 22, Nice 74: Nice leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Naples, Florida 48, Nice 55: Nice leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Naples, Florida 17, Nice 35: Nice leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples, Florida 40, Nice 45: Nice leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples, Florida 45, Nice 40: Naples, Florida leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples, Florida and Nice.

Your match

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

Naples, Florida
44match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Nice
Best match
60match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Naples, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °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, Florida 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples, Florida: 2002-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Naples / East Naples (2.3 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaples, FloridaNice
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation-2 m0 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)43 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaples, FloridaNice
City population19,115357,737
People per km²4504,975
Museums within 10 km417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 months4 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.