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Naples or Split?

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.

Split
51
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Naples if you want a dense old city: many times as many notable places within walking distance, many times as many museums, and about three times as many places to drink.

Choose Split if swimming comes first: the sea starts at the centre and there are 87 beaches nearby, against 29 around Naples, on a much smaller and quieter base.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

NaplesSplit
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 3 points.3
NaplesSplit
Score7673
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km2987
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Naples leads by 8 points.8
NaplesSplit
Score4638
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,244268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km715
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 26 points.26
NaplesSplit
Score7852
Museums within 10 km8418
Museums within 2 km of centre6816
Share of museums within 2 km %8189
Unesco sites within 50 km54
Nightlife. Naples leads by 25 points.25
NaplesSplit
Score6641
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6969
Nightclubs within 4 km4023
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 1 points.1
NaplesSplit
Score3738
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5662
Park area within 2 km41 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 15 points.15
NaplesSplit
Score4126
Tourist attractions within 2 km119
Park area within 2 km41 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 36 points.36
NaplesSplit
Score7842
Notable places within 2 km35143
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 12 points.12
NaplesSplit
Score6880
Price level global64.948.5
Daily budget€155€138
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 4 points.4
NaplesSplit
Score7369
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months32
0255075100

Where they differ

Naples concentrates far more into walking range: many times as many notable places near the centre, and many times as many museums. Nights out are wider too, with about three times as many places to drink and more nightclubs, most of them central.

Split trades that for the water: the sea is 0km from its centre against 1km in Naples, and there are 87 beaches nearby against 29. Its restaurants cover a wider range of kitchens, and Croatia's estimated daily budget is €138 against Italy's €155.

Where they are alike

Day trips are the weaker side for both. Protected land is a modest share of the surroundings either way, 9% around Split and 7% around Naples, and neither city leans on countryside excursions.

Both sit on warm water with a similar swimming season: highs reach 31°C in high summer and the sea peaks at 25-26°C in August. Eating out is a limited draw in each, Naples on numbers, Split on variety.

Which traveller are you?

If you travel for museums and old streets, take Naples: many times as many museums as Split, far more notable places within walking distance of the centre, and 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against 4.

If the day is built around swimming, take Split: the sea begins at the centre rather than 1km out, and there are 87 beaches nearby against 29 around Naples.

Families lean Naples, though neither city is strong here: more tourist attractions and park space near the centre, and 3 theme parks within reach where Split has none. Nights out favour Naples too, with far more bars and clubs.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €155 and €138, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels, not measurements of either city. A heavily visited coastal city can sit further from its country's average than these two figures sit from each other.

Beach and weather strengths hide timing. Split's beach count and central shoreline say nothing about August crowding, and Naples's warmth is a summer matter: its wettest months fall in autumn. The counts behind its lead in sights and bars are taken near the centre, and mean less if you stay further out.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Naples is the stronger pick from June to September: highs of 28-31°C, July and August almost rainless at 17-18mm, and a sea warm enough for swimming a month longer than Split's. October is still warm but carries 92mm, and November 159mm.

Split's case is spring and early autumn: March and April are drier than Naples, 59mm and 62mm against 82mm and 73mm, with highs of 15-18°C. Winter is the cooler of the two.

Getting there

Flying fromNaplesSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€108-177
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 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

MeasureNaplesSplit
Official languageItalianCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m0 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesSplit
City population913,462160,577
People per km²7,676–
Museums within 10 km6511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km54
Distinct cuisines in the centre3131
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.