VacationSelector

Naples or Nice?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Nice
56
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

NaplesNice
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 3 points.3
NaplesNice
Score7673
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km2970
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 23 points.23
NaplesNice
Score4669
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2441,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km728
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 32 points.32
NaplesNice
Score7846
Museums within 10 km8427
Museums within 2 km of centre6814
Share of museums within 2 km %8152
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Naples leads by 22 points.22
NaplesNice
Score6644
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6991
Nightclubs within 4 km4026
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 20 points.20
NaplesNice
Score3757
Protected land share 50 km %724
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %5662
Park area within 2 km41 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 11 points.11
NaplesNice
Score4130
Tourist attractions within 2 km114
Park area within 2 km41 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 31 points.31
NaplesNice
Score7847
Notable places within 2 km35160
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 6 points.6
NaplesNice
Score6862
Price level global64.973.7
Daily budget€155€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 1 points.1
NaplesNice
Score7374
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months33
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

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 centre129 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 km6516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre3165
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.