VacationSelector

Calgary or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

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

La Spezia
✓ Best match
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
CalgaryLa Spezia
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km432
Coast distance649 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 35 points.35
CalgaryLa Spezia
Score6631
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3611
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 33 points.33
CalgaryLa Spezia
Score942
Museums within 10 km815
Museums within 2 km of centre310
Share of museums within 2 km %3867
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 20 points.20
CalgaryLa Spezia
Score4424
Drinking venues within 4 km465208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7485
Nightclubs within 4 km191
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 16 points.16
CalgaryLa Spezia
Score3652
Protected land share 50 km %413
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km142 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 21 points.21
CalgaryLa Spezia
Score4120
Tourist attractions within 2 km33
Park area within 2 km142 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Calgary leads by 32 points.32
CalgaryLa Spezia
Score397
Notable places within 2 km376
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 14 points.14
CalgaryLa Spezia
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 13 points.13
CalgaryLa Spezia
Score5770
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 115 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
GOA · 86 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

MeasureCalgaryLa Spezia
Official languageFrench, EnglishItalian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m3 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryLa Spezia
City population1,306,78492,119
People per km²1,5831,792
Museums within 10 km1312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6722
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.