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Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
Painted colonial houses in the Pelourinho, Salvador
SalvadorPainted colonial houses in the Pelourinho

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Salvador by Paul R. Burley, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Naples or Salvador?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Salvador for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Salvador’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, Salvador 84: Salvador leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Naples 83, Salvador 66: Naples leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, Salvador 74: Naples leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Naples 60, Salvador 70: Salvador leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, Salvador 52: Naples leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, Salvador 56: Naples leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Naples 45, Salvador 42: Naples leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Naples 54, Salvador 42: Naples leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, Salvador 42: Naples leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, Salvador 70: Salvador leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples 66, Salvador 63: Naples leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, Salvador 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 Salvador.

Your match

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

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Salvador
58match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Salvador in July

27 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
201 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
11 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). Salvador: 1991-2020 normals, Salvador (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaplesSalvador
Official languageItalianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation17 m8 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsDeputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (SSA)20 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesSalvador
City population913,4622,417,678
People per km²7,6763,489
Museums within 10 km6549
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.