VacationSelector

Naples or San Francisco?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Naples
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

San Francisco
62
match

Wins on places to eat 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 Francisco
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 16 points.16
NaplesSan Francisco
Score7660
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km2944
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 37 points.37
NaplesSan Francisco
Score4683
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2442,359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km739
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 34 points.34
NaplesSan Francisco
Score7844
Museums within 10 km8457
Museums within 2 km of centre6829
Share of museums within 2 km %8151
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 2 points.2
NaplesSan Francisco
Score6668
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3891,434
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964928
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6965
Nightclubs within 4 km4097
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 23 points.23
NaplesSan Francisco
Score3760
Protected land share 50 km %717
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %5657
Park area within 2 km41 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 16 points.16
NaplesSan Francisco
Score4157
Tourist attractions within 2 km1148
Park area within 2 km41 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 15 points.15
NaplesSan Francisco
Score7863
Notable places within 2 km351147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 25 points.25
NaplesSan Francisco
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 5 points.5
NaplesSan Francisco
Score7378
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C14 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm0 mm to 105 mm
Dry months37
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 Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
San Francisco
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 Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesSan Francisco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
10 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 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 Francisco
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 m16 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesSan Francisco
City population913,462873,965
People per km²7,6761,455
Museums within 10 km6550
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre31108
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. 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.