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Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Naples or Valletta?

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

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Valletta for

  • beaches
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Valletta leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Naples 83, Valletta 55: Naples leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, Valletta 76: Naples leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Naples 60, Valletta 46: Naples leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, Valletta 56: Naples leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, Valletta 76: Naples leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Naples 45, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Naples 54, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, Valletta 38: Naples leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, Valletta 50: Naples leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples 66, Valletta 44: Naples leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, Valletta 32: Naples leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples and Valletta.

Your match

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

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on food and drink and shopping with your weighting.

Valletta
55match

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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaplesValletta
Official languageItalianEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m56 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesValletta
City population913,4625,197
People per km²7,6766,496
Museums within 10 km6516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 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.