VacationSelector

Naples or Shanghai?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Shanghai
54
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

NaplesShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 59 points.59
NaplesShanghai
Score7617
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km290
Coast distance1 km18 km
Water distance1 km18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 33 points.33
NaplesShanghai
Score7845
Museums within 10 km84108
Museums within 2 km of centre6828
Share of museums within 2 km %8126
Unesco sites within 50 km50
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 5 points.5
NaplesShanghai
Score3742
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5682
Park area within 2 km41 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 40 points.40
NaplesShanghai
Score4181
Tourist attractions within 2 km1186
Park area within 2 km41 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km310
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 27 points.27
NaplesShanghai
Score7851
Notable places within 2 km35173
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 11 points.11
NaplesShanghai
Score6879
Price level global64.949
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 8 points.8
NaplesShanghai
Score7365
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm43 mm to 216 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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Shanghai
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
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesShanghai
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 20 m
€39-65
NAP · 7 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 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

MeasureNaplesShanghai
Official languageItalianPutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation17 m4 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesShanghai
City population913,46224,870,895
People per km²7,6763,922
Museums within 10 km6544
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre3164
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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. 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.