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Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Naples 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 for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Nice for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • families

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 50, Nice 75: Nice leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Naples 83, Nice 66: Naples leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, Nice 64: Naples leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Naples 60, Nice 47: Naples leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, Nice 80: Nice leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, Nice 87: Naples leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Naples 45, Nice 57: Nice leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Naples 54, Nice 74: Nice leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, Nice 55: Naples leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, Nice 35: Naples leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples 66, Nice 45: Naples leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, Nice 40: Naples leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples and Nice.

Your match

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

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Nice
60match

Wins on beaches and getting around 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

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 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). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaplesNice
Official languageItalianFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m0 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesNice
City population913,462357,737
People per km²7,6764,975
Museums within 10 km6517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.