VacationSelector

Edinburgh or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

EdinburghLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghLa Spezia
Score5573
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2032
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 39 points.39
EdinburghLa Spezia
Score7031
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3511
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 15 points.15
EdinburghLa Spezia
Score5742
Museums within 10 km3015
Museums within 2 km of centre2210
Share of museums within 2 km %7367
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 40 points.40
EdinburghLa Spezia
Score6424
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7485
Nightclubs within 4 km651
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 17 points.17
EdinburghLa Spezia
Score3552
Protected land share 50 km %213
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8551
Park area within 2 km166 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 52 points.52
EdinburghLa Spezia
Score7220
Tourist attractions within 2 km873
Park area within 2 km166 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 53 points.53
EdinburghLa Spezia
Score607
Notable places within 2 km1266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghLa Spezia
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 19 points.19
EdinburghLa Spezia
Score5170
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
€99-141
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
PalermoPMO
3 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€55-94
EDI · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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 2026-08 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

MeasureEdinburghLa 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
Elevation47 m3 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghLa Spezia
City population488,05092,119
People per km²1,8841,792
Museums within 10 km3212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre7822
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.