VacationSelector

Cardiff or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
match

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

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

CardiffLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 27 points.27
CardiffLa Spezia
Score4673
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km832
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 29 points.29
CardiffLa Spezia
Score6031
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3211
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 3 points.3
CardiffLa Spezia
Score3942
Museums within 10 km6115
Museums within 2 km of centre610
Share of museums within 2 km %1067
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 24 points.24
CardiffLa Spezia
Score4824
Drinking venues within 4 km536208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7485
Nightclubs within 4 km351
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 2 points.2
CardiffLa Spezia
Score5052
Protected land share 50 km %1813
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6851
Park area within 2 km88 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Cardiff leads by 12 points.12
CardiffLa Spezia
Score3220
Tourist attractions within 2 km43
Park area within 2 km88 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 38 points.38
CardiffLa Spezia
Score457
Notable places within 2 km516
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 14 points.14
CardiffLa Spezia
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 16 points.16
CardiffLa Spezia
Score5470
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
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
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCardiffLa Spezia
TiranaTIA
3 h 5 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BariBRI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
Puerto del RosarioFUE
3 h 50 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
3 h 10 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

MeasureCardiffLa Spezia
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m3 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffLa Spezia
City population383,53692,119
People per km²2,7341,792
Museums within 10 km912
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5522
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.