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Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
Hanok houses in Bukchon, Seoul
SeoulHanok houses in Bukchon

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Seoul by 거열 박, Pexels License.

Naples or Seoul?

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

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Seoul for

  • families
  • getting around
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Seoul’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, Seoul 18: Naples leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Naples 83, Seoul 84: Seoul leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, Seoul 75: Naples leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Naples 60, Seoul 84: Seoul leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, Seoul 75: Naples leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, Seoul 77: Naples leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Naples 45, Seoul 80: Seoul leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Naples 54, Seoul 87: Seoul leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, Seoul 85: Seoul leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, Seoul 50: Naples leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples 66, Seoul 63: Naples leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples and Seoul.

Your match

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

Naples
65match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Seoul
Best match
71match

Wins on families and getting around 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

Seoul in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
422 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 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). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaplesSeoul
Official languageItalianKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation17 m38 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre162 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesSeoul
City population913,4629,668,465
People per km²7,67615,973
Museums within 10 km6581
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months2 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.