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Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License.

Naples or Paris?

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

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Paris for

  • shopping
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Paris’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, Paris 9: Naples leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Naples 83, Paris 96: Paris leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, Paris 97: Paris leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Naples 60, Paris 80: Paris leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, Paris 52: Naples leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, Paris 92: Naples leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Naples 45, Paris 79: Paris leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Naples 54, Paris 88: Paris leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, Paris 98: Paris leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, Paris 25: Naples leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples 66, Paris 88: Paris leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, Paris 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 Paris.

Your match

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

Naples
65match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on shopping and families 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

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaplesParis
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 m27 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesParis
City population913,4622,103,778
People per km²7,67619,960
Museums within 10 km65251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km54
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.