VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

Fort LauderdaleLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 11 points.11
Fort LauderdaleLa Spezia
Score8473
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km732
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Fort Lauderdale leads by 14 points.14
Fort LauderdaleLa Spezia
Score4531
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1811
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 22 points.22
Fort LauderdaleLa Spezia
Score2042
Museums within 10 km1415
Museums within 2 km of centre610
Share of museums within 2 km %4367
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale leads by 10 points.10
Fort LauderdaleLa Spezia
Score3424
Drinking venues within 4 km259208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5685
Nightclubs within 4 km181
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 29 points.29
Fort LauderdaleLa Spezia
Score8152
Protected land share 50 km %2013
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5151
Park area within 2 km45 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. La Spezia leads by 1 points.1
Fort LauderdaleLa Spezia
Score1920
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km45 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. La Spezia leads by 7 points.7
Fort LauderdaleLa Spezia
Score07
Notable places within 2 km26
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 25 points.25
Fort LauderdaleLa Spezia
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 6 points.6
Fort LauderdaleLa Spezia
Score7670
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
DublinDUB
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleLa Spezia
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m3 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleLa Spezia
City population182,76092,119
People per km²1,8291,792
Museums within 10 km612
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2522
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.