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Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Naples or New York?

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 for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose New York for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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 and New York are level on 50.
Food & drink. Naples 83, New York 92: New York leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, New York 89: New York leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Naples 60, New York 97: New York leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, New York 55: Naples leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, New York 68: Naples leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Naples 45, New York 70: New York leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Naples 54, New York 82: New York leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, New York 97: New York leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, New York 12: Naples leads by 51 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples 66, New York 99: New York leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, New York 42: Naples leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples and New York.

Your match

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

Naples
65match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on nightlife and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
22 °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 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. Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaplesNew York
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation17 m25 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesNew York
City population913,4628,804,190
People per km²7,6767,256
Museums within 10 km65157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.