VacationSelector

Athens or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AthensLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 25 points.25
AthensLa Spezia
Score4873
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km1432
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 38 points.38
AthensLa Spezia
Score6931
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2511
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 31 points.31
AthensLa Spezia
Score7342
Museums within 10 km12215
Museums within 2 km of centre7810
Share of museums within 2 km %6467
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Athens leads by 57 points.57
AthensLa Spezia
Score8124
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5085
Nightclubs within 4 km1361
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 7 points.7
AthensLa Spezia
Score4552
Protected land share 50 km %513
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5051
Park area within 2 km128 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 51 points.51
AthensLa Spezia
Score7120
Tourist attractions within 2 km683
Park area within 2 km128 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 68 points.68
AthensLa Spezia
Score757
Notable places within 2 km2916
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 6 points.6
AthensLa Spezia
Score7468
Price level global55.864.9
Daily budget€125€155
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 4 points.4
AthensLa Spezia
Score7470
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months72
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 15 m
€78-112
ATH · 20 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 0 m
€103-128
ATH · 20 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 45 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
HeraklionHER
1 h 0 m
€84-111
ATH · 20 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 10 m
€195-281
ATH · 20 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 35 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
3 h 35 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

MeasureAthensLa Spezia
Official languageGreekItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m3 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensLa Spezia
City population643,45292,119
People per km²16,4991,792
Museums within 10 km8812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre8222
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.