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Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
Hawthorne Bridge and downtown, Portland
PortlandHawthorne Bridge and downtown

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Portland by Cacophony, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Naples or Portland?

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

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Portland for

  • families
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Portland’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, Portland 20: Naples leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Naples 83, Portland 68: Naples leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, Portland 38: Naples leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Naples 60, Portland 52: Naples leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, Portland 84: Portland leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, Portland 58: Naples leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Naples 45, Portland 55: Portland leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Naples 54, Portland 62: Portland leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, Portland 52: Naples leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, Portland 38: Naples leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples 66, Portland 55: Naples leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, Portland 42: Naples leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples and Portland.

Your match

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

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Portland
52match

Wins on families 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

Portland in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaplesPortland
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation17 m152 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesPortland
City population913,462652,503
People per km²7,6761,736
Museums within 10 km6517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
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. 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.

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.