VacationSelector

Naples or Salzburg?

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.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

NaplesSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 76 points.76
NaplesSalzburg
Score760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km299
Coast distance1 km653 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Salzburg leads by 3 points.3
NaplesSalzburg
Score4649
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,244348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km723
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 18 points.18
NaplesSalzburg
Score7860
Museums within 10 km8442
Museums within 2 km of centre6827
Share of museums within 2 km %8164
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Naples leads by 30 points.30
NaplesSalzburg
Score6636
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6982
Nightclubs within 4 km4016
Nature & day trips. Naples leads by 10 points.10
NaplesSalzburg
Score3727
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km41 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 7 points.7
NaplesSalzburg
Score4148
Tourist attractions within 2 km1117
Park area within 2 km41 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 32 points.32
NaplesSalzburg
Score7846
Notable places within 2 km35154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 9 points.9
NaplesSalzburg
Score6859
Price level global64.976.9
Daily budget€155€160
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 19 points.19
NaplesSalzburg
Score7354
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesSalzburg
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
1 h 45 m
€107-164
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€183-262
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
HurghadaHRG
3 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
SZG · 3 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

MeasureNaplesSalzburg
Official languageItalianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation17 m424 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesSalzburg
City population913,462155,021
People per km²7,6762,360
Museums within 10 km6538
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre3150
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. 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.