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Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
Playa Tamarindo, Tamarindo
TamarindoPlaya Tamarindo

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Tamarindo by Jarle Naustvik, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Naples or Tamarindo?

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

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Tamarindo for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tamarindo’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, Tamarindo 85: Tamarindo leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Naples 83, Tamarindo 38: Naples leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, Tamarindo 5: Naples leads by 82 points.
Nightlife. Naples 60, Tamarindo 45: Naples leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, Tamarindo 76: Naples leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, Tamarindo 28: Naples leads by 68 points.
Good for families. Naples 45, Tamarindo 55: Tamarindo leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Naples 54, Tamarindo 32: Naples leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, Tamarindo 18: Naples leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, Tamarindo 36: Naples leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples 66, Tamarindo 10: Naples leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, Tamarindo 45: Tamarindo leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples and Tamarindo.

Your match

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

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Tamarindo
39match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Tamarindo in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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.

Tamarindo's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Liberia.

Tamarindo 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.

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). Tamarindo: 1991-2020 normals, Liberia (53.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaplesTamarindo
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation17 m27 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)43 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesTamarindo
City population913,4627,132
People per km²7,67657
Museums within 10 km650
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.