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Naples or San Diego?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

San Diego
58
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

NaplesSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 13 points.13
NaplesSan Diego
Score7663
Swim season months51
Beaches 10 km2942
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 17 points.17
NaplesSan Diego
Score4663
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,244823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km727
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 34 points.34
NaplesSan Diego
Score7844
Museums within 10 km8459
Museums within 2 km of centre6830
Share of museums within 2 km %8151
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Naples leads by 16 points.16
NaplesSan Diego
Score6650
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6966
Nightclubs within 4 km4031
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 18 points.18
NaplesSan Diego
Score3755
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5652
Park area within 2 km41 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 34 points.34
NaplesSan Diego
Score4175
Tourist attractions within 2 km1140
Park area within 2 km41 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 38 points.38
NaplesSan Diego
Score7840
Notable places within 2 km35140
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 25 points.25
NaplesSan Diego
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 15 points.15
NaplesSan Diego
Score7388
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months39
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
San Diego
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesSan Diego
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 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

MeasureNaplesSan Diego
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 m129 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesSan Diego
City population913,4621,386,932
People per km²7,6761,438
Museums within 10 km6526
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre3144
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 month

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.