VacationSelector

Faro or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

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

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

FaroLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 12 points.12
FaroLa Spezia
Score6173
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km1332
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 13 points.13
FaroLa Spezia
Score4431
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2211
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 20 points.20
FaroLa Spezia
Score2242
Museums within 10 km915
Museums within 2 km of centre810
Share of museums within 2 km %8967
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. La Spezia leads by 3 points.3
FaroLa Spezia
Score2124
Drinking venues within 4 km143208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8685
Nightclubs within 4 km81
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 5 points.5
FaroLa Spezia
Score5752
Protected land share 50 km %1113
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4251
Park area within 2 km34 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 16 points.16
FaroLa Spezia
Score3620
Tourist attractions within 2 km103
Park area within 2 km34 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Faro leads by 15 points.15
FaroLa Spezia
Score227
Notable places within 2 km146
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 6 points.6
FaroLa Spezia
Score7468
Price level global55.964.9
Daily budget€109€155
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 13 points.13
FaroLa Spezia
Score8370
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months62
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFaroLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
EindhovenEIN
2 h 55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureFaroLa Spezia
Official languagePortugueseItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m3 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroLa Spezia
City population64,56092,119
People per km²3191,792
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3422
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 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.