VacationSelector

Naples or Venice?

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 nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Naples if you want evenings out, with far more bars and clubs than Venice, warmer weather across the year and swimming close by, the sea 1km from the centre with 29 beaches within reach.

Choose Venice if you are travelling with children or want a short, dense walking trip: more attractions clustered near the centre and slightly more notable places within walking distance.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

NaplesVenice
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 7 points.7
NaplesVenice
Score7669
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km2920
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Naples leads by 1 points.1
NaplesVenice
Score4645
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,244750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km710
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 6 points.6
NaplesVenice
Score7872
Museums within 10 km8457
Museums within 2 km of centre6845
Share of museums within 2 km %8179
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Naples leads by 31 points.31
NaplesVenice
Score6635
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6989
Nightclubs within 4 km403
Nature & day trips. Naples leads by 20 points.20
NaplesVenice
Score3717
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5670
Park area within 2 km41 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 16 points.16
NaplesVenice
Score4157
Tourist attractions within 2 km1172
Park area within 2 km41 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 5 points.5
NaplesVenice
Score7883
Notable places within 2 km351464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples and Venice are level on 68.
NaplesVenice
Score6868
Price level global64.964.9
Daily budget€155€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 7 points.7
NaplesVenice
Score7366
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months32
0255075100

Where they differ

Naples is the livelier city after dark: many times as many places to drink and many times as many nightclubs as Venice, most of them near the centre. It also has more open country within reach, 7% of the surrounding land protected against 4%, and about three times as much park space near its centre.

Venice works better with children, with many times as many tourist attractions close to the centre; both cities have 3 theme parks within reach, so the difference is what sits on your doorstep.

Where they are alike

Eating out is where they are closest. Naples has about twice as many restaurants near the centre; Venice offers a somewhat wider range of kitchens. Neither leaves you short, and neither is the reason to choose.

Both are compact heritage cities: notable places within walking distance of the centre, Venice with somewhat more; museums in both, Naples with somewhat more; and 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach of each. Both also reach a sea of 26°C in August.

Which traveller are you?

Travelling with children: Venice, where tourist attractions cluster close to the centre and short walks replace transport. Naples answers with about three times as much park space near its centre, and both have 3 theme parks within reach.

Anyone whose evenings matter more than their mornings should go to Naples: many times as many bars and clubs as Venice, most of them near the centre, so a night out needs no planning.

Swimmers and walkers who want a base out of doors: Naples, with the sea 1km from the centre, 29 beaches nearby and 7% of the surrounding land protected.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison here carries no information. Both cities are given the same national price level, so it says nothing about which is cheaper, and the €155 daily budget beside it is one country-wide estimate rather than a measurement of either city. Judge cost from your own accommodation and travel choices instead.

Dry months are not automatically good months. Naples is driest in July and August at 17-18mm, which are also its hottest at 31°C; Venice is driest in January and February, when highs are 8-10°C. Naples's beach strength rests on the same August weeks everyone else travels.

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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Naples holds up longest. June to September brings highs of 28-31°C, with July and August the driest months of the year at 17-18mm, and the sea sits at 21°C or more for five months. October is still 23°C, though autumn turns wet, 159mm in November.

Venice is at its best from June to August, at 28-30°C, with the sea reaching 26°C in August. May and September are warm enough but wet, 91mm and 106mm, and January highs of 8°C make winter the weaker season.

Getting there

Flying fromNaplesVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
TRS · 98 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 5 m
€36-65
NAP · 7 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 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

MeasureNaplesVenice
Official languageItalianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m2 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesVenice
City population913,462250,369
People per km²7,676602
Museums within 10 km6552
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre3146
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.