VacationSelector

Frankfurt or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
57
match

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

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

FrankfurtLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
FrankfurtLa Spezia
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km432
Coast distance327 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 39 points.39
FrankfurtLa Spezia
Score7031
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,160235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3111
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 27 points.27
FrankfurtLa Spezia
Score6942
Museums within 10 km7915
Museums within 2 km of centre4310
Share of museums within 2 km %5467
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 35 points.35
FrankfurtLa Spezia
Score5924
Drinking venues within 4 km931208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7485
Nightclubs within 4 km561
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 12 points.12
FrankfurtLa Spezia
Score6452
Protected land share 50 km %2813
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km124 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 48 points.48
FrankfurtLa Spezia
Score6820
Tourist attractions within 2 km453
Park area within 2 km124 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 54 points.54
FrankfurtLa Spezia
Score617
Notable places within 2 km1296
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 8 points.8
FrankfurtLa Spezia
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 8 points.8
FrankfurtLa Spezia
Score6270
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months12
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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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 50 m
€121-146
FRA · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BerlinBER
1 h 10 m
€157-188
FRA · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 20 m
no fares
HHN · 103 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 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

MeasureFrankfurtLa Spezia
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation101 m3 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtLa Spezia
City population775,79092,119
People per km²3,1241,792
Museums within 10 km5312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre7122
Swim season, months above 21 °C–4 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.