VacationSelector

Hamburg or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

HamburgLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
HamburgLa Spezia
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1632
Coast distance22 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 42 points.42
HamburgLa Spezia
Score7331
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,150235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3811
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 18 points.18
HamburgLa Spezia
Score6042
Museums within 10 km9415
Museums within 2 km of centre5010
Share of museums within 2 km %5367
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 44 points.44
HamburgLa Spezia
Score6824
Drinking venues within 4 km1,339208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre834176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6285
Nightclubs within 4 km1191
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 12 points.12
HamburgLa Spezia
Score4052
Protected land share 50 km %1413
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %9951
Park area within 2 km89 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 40 points.40
HamburgLa Spezia
Score6020
Tourist attractions within 2 km403
Park area within 2 km89 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 52 points.52
HamburgLa Spezia
Score597
Notable places within 2 km1186
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 8 points.8
HamburgLa Spezia
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 15 points.15
HamburgLa Spezia
Score5570
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months12
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
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
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg 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 fromHamburgLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€207-240
1 stop
GOA · 86 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 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

MeasureHamburgLa 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
Elevation6 m3 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgLa Spezia
City population1,910,16092,119
People per km²2,5301,792
Museums within 10 km7712
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8322
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.