VacationSelector

Dublin or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

DublinLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 24 points.24
DublinLa Spezia
Score4973
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1132
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 39 points.39
DublinLa Spezia
Score7031
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3711
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 13 points.13
DublinLa Spezia
Score5542
Museums within 10 km4715
Museums within 2 km of centre3710
Share of museums within 2 km %7967
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 40 points.40
DublinLa Spezia
Score6424
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7585
Nightclubs within 4 km401
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 26 points.26
DublinLa Spezia
Score2652
Protected land share 50 km %313
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6251
Park area within 2 km43 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 34 points.34
DublinLa Spezia
Score5420
Tourist attractions within 2 km413
Park area within 2 km43 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 55 points.55
DublinLa Spezia
Score627
Notable places within 2 km1416
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 11 points.11
DublinLa Spezia
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 16 points.16
DublinLa Spezia
Score5470
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
PalermoPMO
3 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
€60-123
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 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

MeasureDublinLa 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
Elevation20 m3 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinLa Spezia
City population592,71392,119
People per km²5,1541,792
Museums within 10 km4012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7422
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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.