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Naples Pier over turquoise water, Naples, Florida
Naples, FloridaNaples Pier over turquoise water
The lighthouse and harbour at Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharm el-Sheikh
Sharm el-SheikhThe lighthouse and harbour at Sharm el-Sheikh

Photos: Naples, Florida by William “Patrick” Ma…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Sharm el-Sheikh by Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Naples, Florida or Sharm el-Sheikh?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Sharm el-Sheikh for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sharm el-Sheikh’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 and Sharm el-Sheikh are level on 87.
Food & drink. Naples, Florida 46, Sharm el-Sheikh 30: Naples, Florida leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Naples, Florida 27, Sharm el-Sheikh 12: Naples, Florida leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Naples, Florida 20, Sharm el-Sheikh 42: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples, Florida 66, Sharm el-Sheikh 82: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Naples, Florida 43, Sharm el-Sheikh 30: Naples, Florida leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Naples, Florida 64, Sharm el-Sheikh 62: Naples, Florida leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Naples, Florida and Sharm el-Sheikh are level on 22.
Shopping & style. Naples, Florida 48, Sharm el-Sheikh 25: Naples, Florida leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Naples, Florida 17, Sharm el-Sheikh 74: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples, Florida 40, Sharm el-Sheikh 10: Naples, Florida leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples, Florida 45, Sharm el-Sheikh 50: Sharm el-Sheikh 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 Sharm el-Sheikh.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Naples, Florida
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Sharm el-Sheikh
44match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Sharm el-Sheikh in July

38 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 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.

Sharm el-Sheikh has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Sharm el-Sheikh: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureNaples, FloridaSharm el-Sheikh
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation-2 m1 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)43 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsSharm El Sheikh International Airport (SSH)16 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaples, FloridaSharm el-Sheikh
City population19,11573,000
People per km²450-
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.