VacationSelector

Antwerp or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AntwerpLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
AntwerpLa Spezia
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km132
Coast distance21 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 44 points.44
AntwerpLa Spezia
Score7531
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4211
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 27 points.27
AntwerpLa Spezia
Score6942
Museums within 10 km4115
Museums within 2 km of centre2710
Share of museums within 2 km %6667
Unesco sites within 50 km92
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 35 points.35
AntwerpLa Spezia
Score5924
Drinking venues within 4 km866208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7685
Nightclubs within 4 km731
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 18 points.18
AntwerpLa Spezia
Score3452
Protected land share 50 km %713
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8051
Park area within 2 km53 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 26 points.26
AntwerpLa Spezia
Score4620
Tourist attractions within 2 km143
Park area within 2 km53 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 47 points.47
AntwerpLa Spezia
Score547
Notable places within 2 km886
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpLa Spezia
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 12 points.12
AntwerpLa Spezia
Score5870
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 30 m
€71-157
CRL · 85 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 30 m
no fares
CRL · 85 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 40 m
no fares
CRL · 85 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAntwerpLa Spezia
Official languageFrench, German, DutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m3 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpLa Spezia
City population529,24792,119
People per km²2,5421,792
Museums within 10 km3812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km92
Distinct cuisines in the centre8022
Swim season, months above 21 °C–4 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.