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Naples or Valencia?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Naples
63
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Valencia
64
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips 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.

NaplesValencia
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 9 points.9
NaplesValencia
Score7667
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km2912
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 32 points.32
NaplesValencia
Score4678
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2441,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km733
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 23 points.23
NaplesValencia
Score7855
Museums within 10 km8459
Museums within 2 km of centre6826
Share of museums within 2 km %8144
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 4 points.4
NaplesValencia
Score6670
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3891,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6963
Nightclubs within 4 km40108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 16 points.16
NaplesValencia
Score3753
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5664
Park area within 2 km41 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 1 points.1
NaplesValencia
Score4142
Tourist attractions within 2 km1112
Park area within 2 km41 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 26 points.26
NaplesValencia
Score7852
Notable places within 2 km35178
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 3 points.3
NaplesValencia
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 11 points.11
NaplesValencia
Score7384
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months38
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesValencia
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 40 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

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 centre107 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 km6546
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre3192
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.