VacationSelector
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Naples or Tromso?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Tromso for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Naples leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Naples 83, Tromso 36: Naples leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, Tromso 27: Naples leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Naples 60, Tromso 38: Naples leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, Tromso 14: Naples leads by 82 points.
Good for families. Naples and Tromso are level on 45.
Getting around. Naples 54, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, Tromso 15: Naples leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, Tromso 11: Naples leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples 66, Tromso 32: Naples leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, Tromso 38: Naples leads by 6 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples and Tromso.

Your match

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

Naples
Best match
65match

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

Tromso
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

-10°0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150JFMAMJJASOND
NaplesTromso

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaplesTromso
Official languageItalianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation17 m20 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesTromso
City population913,46279,943
People per km²7,67632
Museums within 10 km658
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Naples or Tromso somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.