VacationSelector

Bangkok or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BangkokLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 33 points.33
BangkokLa Spezia
Score4073
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km032
Coast distance23 km0 km
Water distance23 km0 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 52 points.52
BangkokLa Spezia
Score8331
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2611
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 4 points.4
BangkokLa Spezia
Score4642
Museums within 10 km10315
Museums within 2 km of centre3010
Share of museums within 2 km %2967
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 59 points.59
BangkokLa Spezia
Score8324
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4185
Nightclubs within 4 km721
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 1 points.1
BangkokLa Spezia
Score5152
Protected land share 50 km %—13
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8351
Park area within 2 km42 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 37 points.37
BangkokLa Spezia
Score5720
Tourist attractions within 2 km313
Park area within 2 km42 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 41 points.41
BangkokLa Spezia
Score487
Notable places within 2 km626
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokLa Spezia
Score9368
Price level global29.764.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 14 points.14
BangkokLa Spezia
Score5670
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months32
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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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 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

MeasureBangkokLa Spezia
Official languageThaiItalian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m3 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokLa Spezia
City population5,676,64892,119
People per km²3,6191,792
Museums within 10 km5912
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre9122
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

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.