VacationSelector

Cancun or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Cancun
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

CancunLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 24 points.24
CancunLa Spezia
Score9773
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km2332
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Cancun leads by 23 points.23
CancunLa Spezia
Score5431
Restaurants within 2 km of centre681235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1811
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 22 points.22
CancunLa Spezia
Score2042
Museums within 10 km115
Museums within 2 km of centre110
Share of museums within 2 km %10067
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Cancun leads by 12 points.12
CancunLa Spezia
Score3624
Drinking venues within 4 km270208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6585
Nightclubs within 4 km331
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 2 points.2
CancunLa Spezia
Score5452
Protected land share 50 km %913
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4551
Park area within 2 km66 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Cancun leads by 12 points.12
CancunLa Spezia
Score3220
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km66 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. La Spezia leads by 3 points.3
CancunLa Spezia
Score47
Notable places within 2 km56
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 8 points.8
CancunLa Spezia
Score7668
Price level global54.264.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 11 points.11
CancunLa Spezia
Score8170
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months12
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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
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. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCancunLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
MadridMAD
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
DublinDUB
9 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ManchesterMAN
9 h 50 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
LisbonLIS
9 h 30 m
€740-984
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
2 h 45 m
€267-328
1 stop
FLR · 115 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
11 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
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 2026-08 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

MeasureCancunLa Spezia
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m3 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunLa Spezia
City population888,79792,119
People per km²1,792
Museums within 10 km112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3122
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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.