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Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Naples or Valencia?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Valencia for

  • families
  • beaches
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Naples 83, Valencia 74: Naples leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, Valencia 68: Naples leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Naples 60, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, Valencia 60: Naples leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, Valencia 70: Naples leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Naples 45, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Naples 54, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, Valencia 57: Naples leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, Valencia 57: Naples leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples 66, Valencia 55: Naples leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, Valencia 42: Naples leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples and Valencia.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Naples
65match

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

Valencia
65match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaplesValencia
Official languageItalianSpanish
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 m15 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesValencia
City population913,462840,792
People per km²7,6766,242
Museums within 10 km6545
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.