VacationSelector

Hong Kong or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

Hong KongLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 14 points.14
Hong KongLa Spezia
Score8773
Swim season months84
Beaches 10 km6532
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 57 points.57
Hong KongLa Spezia
Score8831
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3211
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 6 points.6
Hong KongLa Spezia
Score3642
Museums within 10 km5015
Museums within 2 km of centre1710
Share of museums within 2 km %3467
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 47 points.47
Hong KongLa Spezia
Score7124
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5985
Nightclubs within 4 km371
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 12 points.12
Hong KongLa Spezia
Score6452
Protected land share 50 km %813
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2951
Park area within 2 km52 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 38 points.38
Hong KongLa Spezia
Score5820
Tourist attractions within 2 km273
Park area within 2 km52 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 62 points.62
Hong KongLa Spezia
Score697
Notable places within 2 km2046
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 5 points.5
Hong KongLa Spezia
Score6368
Price level global7264.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 4 points.4
Hong KongLa Spezia
Score7470
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months42
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
BudapestBUD
10 h 40 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
1 h 35 m
€129-161
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 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

MeasureHong KongLa Spezia
Official languageStandard ChineseItalian
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m3 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongLa Spezia
City population7,413,07092,119
People per km²1,792
Museums within 10 km3912
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7622
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.