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Heidelberg 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

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

HeidelbergLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
HeidelbergLa Spezia
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km632
Coast distance406 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Heidelberg leads by 16 points.16
HeidelbergLa Spezia
Score4731
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2611
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 17 points.17
HeidelbergLa Spezia
Score5942
Museums within 10 km5415
Museums within 2 km of centre2310
Share of museums within 2 km %4367
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Heidelberg leads by 3 points.3
HeidelbergLa Spezia
Score2724
Drinking venues within 4 km201208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8485
Nightclubs within 4 km81
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 22 points.22
HeidelbergLa Spezia
Score7452
Protected land share 50 km %5213
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km20 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Heidelberg leads by 23 points.23
HeidelbergLa Spezia
Score4320
Tourist attractions within 2 km293
Park area within 2 km20 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Heidelberg leads by 29 points.29
HeidelbergLa Spezia
Score367
Notable places within 2 km316
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergLa Spezia
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 9 points.9
HeidelbergLa Spezia
Score6170
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall45 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
Heidelberg
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
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 50 m
€121-146
FRA · 69 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BerlinBER
1 h 10 m
€157-188
FRA · 69 km
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 20 m
no fares
HHN · 120 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 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

MeasureHeidelbergLa 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
Elevation114 m3 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergLa Spezia
City population162,96092,119
People per km²1,4961,792
Museums within 10 km1712
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre4522
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.