VacationSelector

Naples or Philadelphia?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
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.

NaplesPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 76 points.76
NaplesPhiladelphia
Score760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km291
Coast distance1 km13 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 31 points.31
NaplesPhiladelphia
Score4677
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2441,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km735
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 18 points.18
NaplesPhiladelphia
Score7860
Museums within 10 km8489
Museums within 2 km of centre6848
Share of museums within 2 km %8154
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Naples leads by 7 points.7
NaplesPhiladelphia
Score6659
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6962
Nightclubs within 4 km4041
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 12 points.12
NaplesPhiladelphia
Score3749
Protected land share 50 km %714
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5689
Park area within 2 km41 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 12 points.12
NaplesPhiladelphia
Score4153
Tourist attractions within 2 km1116
Park area within 2 km41 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 24 points.24
NaplesPhiladelphia
Score7854
Notable places within 2 km35188
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 25 points.25
NaplesPhiladelphia
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 13 points.13
NaplesPhiladelphia
Score7360
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm69 mm to 112 mm
Dry months30
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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesPhiladelphia
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 5 m
€36-65
NAP · 7 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 0 m
€39-94
NAP · 7 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
10 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DublinDUB
3 h 5 m
€109-195
NAP · 7 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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 2026-09 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

MeasureNaplesPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesPhiladelphia
City population913,4621,603,797
People per km²7,6764,339
Museums within 10 km6554
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre3175
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.