VacationSelector

Cork or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

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

La Spezia
✓ Best match
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CorkLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 45 points.45
CorkLa Spezia
Score2873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km132
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Cork leads by 19 points.19
CorkLa Spezia
Score5031
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3511
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 19 points.19
CorkLa Spezia
Score2342
Museums within 10 km1015
Museums within 2 km of centre810
Share of museums within 2 km %8067
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Cork leads by 14 points.14
CorkLa Spezia
Score3824
Drinking venues within 4 km361208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8185
Nightclubs within 4 km91
Nature & day trips. Cork and La Spezia are level on 52.
CorkLa Spezia
Score5252
Protected land share 50 km %—13
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7451
Park area within 2 km48 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Cork leads by 7 points.7
CorkLa Spezia
Score2720
Tourist attractions within 2 km73
Park area within 2 km48 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Cork leads by 15 points.15
CorkLa Spezia
Score227
Notable places within 2 km146
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 11 points.11
CorkLa Spezia
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 21 points.21
CorkLa Spezia
Score4970
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
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
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ValenciaVLC
2 h 25 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€83-161
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

MeasureCorkLa Spezia
Official languageEnglish, IrishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkLa Spezia
City population222,33392,119
People per km²5,9611,792
Museums within 10 km512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre4922
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.