VacationSelector

Boston or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Boston
✓ Best match
55
match

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

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BostonLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 13 points.13
BostonLa Spezia
Score6073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km6832
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 42 points.42
BostonLa Spezia
Score7331
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3211
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 1 points.1
BostonLa Spezia
Score4342
Museums within 10 km7915
Museums within 2 km of centre2710
Share of museums within 2 km %3467
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Boston leads by 34 points.34
BostonLa Spezia
Score5824
Drinking venues within 4 km886208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5885
Nightclubs within 4 km431
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 1 points.1
BostonLa Spezia
Score5352
Protected land share 50 km %1213
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7751
Park area within 2 km116 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 33 points.33
BostonLa Spezia
Score5320
Tourist attractions within 2 km283
Park area within 2 km116 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 51 points.51
BostonLa Spezia
Score587
Notable places within 2 km1116
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 25 points.25
BostonLa Spezia
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 14 points.14
BostonLa Spezia
Score5670
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
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
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
CopenhagenCPH
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
PortoOPO
6 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureBostonLa Spezia
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m3 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonLa Spezia
City population675,64792,119
People per km²2,9101,792
Museums within 10 km5112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7422
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). 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. 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.