VacationSelector

Beijing or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

BeijingLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
BeijingLa Spezia
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km032
Coast distance145 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 21 points.21
BeijingLa Spezia
Score6342
Museums within 10 km9515
Museums within 2 km of centre1510
Share of museums within 2 km %1667
Unesco sites within 50 km62
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 17 points.17
BeijingLa Spezia
Score3552
Protected land share 50 km %313
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km143 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 57 points.57
BeijingLa Spezia
Score7720
Tourist attractions within 2 km413
Park area within 2 km143 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km122
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 43 points.43
BeijingLa Spezia
Score507
Notable places within 2 km696
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 11 points.11
BeijingLa Spezia
Score7968
Price level global4964.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 4 points.4
BeijingLa Spezia
Score6670
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months82
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
10 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
BerlinBER
9 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
DublinDUB
10 h 25 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
MadridMAD
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBeijingLa Spezia
Official languagePutonghuaItalian
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m3 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingLa Spezia
City population21,893,09592,119
People per km²1,3341,792
Museums within 10 km8312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre2922
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.