VacationSelector

Budapest or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

BudapestLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
BudapestLa Spezia
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km632
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 46 points.46
BudapestLa Spezia
Score7731
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3511
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 22 points.22
BudapestLa Spezia
Score6442
Museums within 10 km14415
Museums within 2 km of centre6410
Share of museums within 2 km %4467
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 48 points.48
BudapestLa Spezia
Score7224
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6685
Nightclubs within 4 km971
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 12 points.12
BudapestLa Spezia
Score4052
Protected land share 50 km %813
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km111 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 51 points.51
BudapestLa Spezia
Score7120
Tourist attractions within 2 km753
Park area within 2 km111 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 62 points.62
BudapestLa Spezia
Score697
Notable places within 2 km2066
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 12 points.12
BudapestLa Spezia
Score8068
Price level global4864.9
Daily budget€104€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 6 points.6
BudapestLa Spezia
Score6470
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months52
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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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 0 m
€70-86
BUD · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 0 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestLa Spezia
Official languageHungarianItalian
CurrencyForint (HUF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m3 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestLa Spezia
City population1,685,20992,119
People per km²3,2091,792
Museums within 10 km8112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8622
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). 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. 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.