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The skyline and the Rocky Mountains over City Park and Ferril Lake, Denver
DenverThe skyline and the Rocky Mountains over City Park and Ferril Lake
Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour

Photos: Denver by Zenhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License.

Denver or La Spezia?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Denver for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Denver’s own page.

Choose La Spezia for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on La Spezia’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Denver 5, La Spezia 60: La Spezia leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Denver 54, La Spezia 58: La Spezia leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Denver 44, La Spezia 40: Denver leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Denver 47, La Spezia 28: Denver leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Denver 84, La Spezia 79: Denver leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Denver 57, La Spezia 87: La Spezia leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Denver 67, La Spezia 48: Denver leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Denver 40, La Spezia 70: La Spezia leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Denver 44, La Spezia 35: Denver leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Denver 36, La Spezia 50: La Spezia leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Denver 66, La Spezia 28: Denver leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Denver 40, La Spezia 32: Denver leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Denver and La Spezia.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Denver
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

La Spezia
51match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Denver in July

32 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

La Spezia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
20 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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DenverLa Spezia

Where the figures come from

La Spezia's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

La Spezia has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Denver: 1991-2020 normals, Denver / Stapleton International, Co. (11.2 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDenverLa Spezia
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)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
Elevation1,609 m3 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)30 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDenverLa Spezia
City population715,52292,119
People per km²1,7831,792
Museums within 10 km2612
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.