Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Perth by Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0, cropped.
Naples or Perth?
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
- day trips
- culture and sights
- prices
What lies behind each score is written up on Naples’s own page.
Choose Perth for
- beaches
- families
- getting around
What lies behind each score is written up on Perth’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples and Perth.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.
Wins on beaches 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
Perth in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
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). Perth: 1991-2020 normals, Perth (7.3 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Naples | Perth |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Italian | English |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Australian Dollar (AUD) |
| Sockets | CFL230 V, 50 Hz | I230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Left |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+8 |
| Emergency number | 112 | 000 |
| Elevation | 17 m | 2 m |
| Main airport | Naples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations | Perth International Airport (PER)10 km from centre49 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 13 days | 11 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Naples | Perth |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 913,462 | 2,141,834 |
| People per km² | 7,676 | 334 |
| Museums within 10 km | 65 | 15 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 5 | 1 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | 5 months | 5 months |
Where else could you go?
Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Naples or Perth somewhere new.