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Naples or Thessaloniki?

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 museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
59
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

NaplesThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 21 points.21
NaplesThessaloniki
Score7655
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km294
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
NaplesThessaloniki
Score4650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,244640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km715
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 29 points.29
NaplesThessaloniki
Score7849
Museums within 10 km8434
Museums within 2 km of centre6822
Share of museums within 2 km %8165
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 1 points.1
NaplesThessaloniki
Score6667
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3891,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6957
Nightclubs within 4 km4061
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 28 points.28
NaplesThessaloniki
Score3765
Protected land share 50 km %725
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5683
Park area within 2 km41 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Naples and Thessaloniki are level on 41.
NaplesThessaloniki
Score4141
Tourist attractions within 2 km1116
Park area within 2 km41 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 22 points.22
NaplesThessaloniki
Score7856
Notable places within 2 km35198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.6
NaplesThessaloniki
Score6874
Price level global64.955.8
Daily budget€155€125
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 1 points.1
NaplesThessaloniki
Score7372
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months39
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesThessaloniki
AthensATH
1 h 45 m
€107-164
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€129-217
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 5 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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 2026-08 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

MeasureNaplesThessaloniki
Official languageItalianGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m6 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesThessaloniki
City population913,462309,617
People per km²7,67616,042
Museums within 10 km6531
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre3145
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. 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.