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Naples Pier over turquoise water, Naples, Florida
Naples, FloridaNaples Pier over turquoise water
El Castillo above the beach at Tulum, Tulum
TulumEl Castillo above the beach at Tulum

Photos: Naples, Florida by William “Patrick” Ma…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tulum by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Naples, Florida or Tulum?

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
  • families

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

Choose Tulum for

  • nightlife
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Tulum’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, Tulum 88: Tulum leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Naples, Florida 46, Tulum 52: Tulum leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Naples, Florida 27, Tulum 30: Tulum leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Naples, Florida 20, Tulum 60: Tulum leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples, Florida 66, Tulum 76: Tulum leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Naples, Florida 43, Tulum 68: Tulum leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Naples, Florida 64, Tulum 60: Naples, Florida leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Naples, Florida 22, Tulum 25: Tulum leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Naples, Florida 48, Tulum 35: Naples, Florida leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Naples, Florida 17, Tulum 30: Tulum leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples, Florida 40, Tulum 15: Naples, Florida leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples, Florida 45, Tulum 85: Tulum leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples, Florida and Tulum.

Your match

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

Naples, Florida
44match

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

Tulum
Best match
52match

Wins on nightlife and wellness 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

Tulum in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 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.

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

Before you go

MeasureNaples, FloridaTulum
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911911
Elevation-2 m5 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)43 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsFelipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport Tulum (TQO)21 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaples, FloridaTulum
City population19,11533,374
People per km²450-
Museums within 10 km40
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.