VacationSelector

Naples or Rotterdam?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

NaplesRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 39 points.39
NaplesRotterdam
Score7637
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km2922
Coast distance1 km24 km
Water distance1 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 26 points.26
NaplesRotterdam
Score4672
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,244862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km746
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 18 points.18
NaplesRotterdam
Score7860
Museums within 10 km8441
Museums within 2 km of centre6820
Share of museums within 2 km %8149
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Naples leads by 17 points.17
NaplesRotterdam
Score6649
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6970
Nightclubs within 4 km4040
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 5 points.5
NaplesRotterdam
Score3742
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5679
Park area within 2 km41 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 21 points.21
NaplesRotterdam
Score4162
Tourist attractions within 2 km1127
Park area within 2 km41 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km38
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 27 points.27
NaplesRotterdam
Score7851
Notable places within 2 km35174
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 10 points.10
NaplesRotterdam
Score6858
Price level global64.979.2
Daily budget€155€181
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 17 points.17
NaplesRotterdam
Score7356
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€224-269
1 stop
RTM · 5 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
3 h 5 m
€109-195
NAP · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 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 2026-08 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

MeasureNaplesRotterdam
Official languageItalianDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation17 m10 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesRotterdam
City population913,462664,311
People per km²7,6762,080
Museums within 10 km6540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre3177
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.