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Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
The Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower, Shanghai
ShanghaiThe Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Shanghai by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Naples or Shanghai?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Shanghai for

  • families
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Shanghai’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, Shanghai 10: Naples leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Naples 83, Shanghai 88: Shanghai leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, Shanghai 72: Naples leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Naples 60, Shanghai 80: Shanghai leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, Shanghai 25: Naples leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, Shanghai 90: Naples leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Naples 45, Shanghai 80: Shanghai leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Naples 54, Shanghai 85: Shanghai leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, Shanghai 82: Shanghai leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, Shanghai 55: Naples leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples and Shanghai are level on 66.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, Shanghai 55: Shanghai leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples and Shanghai.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Naples
65match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Shanghai
66match

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

Shanghai in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
151 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
14 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). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

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 centre207 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 km6545
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.