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Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
Punta del Este

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Naples or Punta del Este?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Punta del Este for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta del Este’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, Punta del Este 72: Punta del Este leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Naples 83, Punta del Este 45: Naples leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, Punta del Este 22: Naples leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Naples and Punta del Este are level on 60.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, Punta del Este 55: Naples leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, Punta del Este 45: Naples leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Naples 45, Punta del Este 55: Punta del Este leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Naples 54, Punta del Este 35: Naples leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, Punta del Este 42: Naples leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, Punta del Este 20: Naples leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples 66, Punta del Este 22: Naples leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, Punta del Este 32: Naples leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples and Punta del Este.

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.

Punta del Este
42match

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

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Punta del Este in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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.

Punta del Este's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Rocha.

Punta del Este 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.

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). Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaplesPunta del Este
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation17 m11 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesPunta del Este
City population913,4629,277
People per km²7,676455
Museums within 10 km655
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.