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Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day
Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour

Photos: Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License; La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License.

Huntington Beach or La Spezia?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Huntington Beach for

  • families
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Huntington Beach’s own page.

Choose La Spezia for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on La Spezia’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Huntington Beach 70, La Spezia 60: Huntington Beach leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Huntington Beach 46, La Spezia 58: La Spezia leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Huntington Beach 14, La Spezia 40: La Spezia leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Huntington Beach 38, La Spezia 28: Huntington Beach leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huntington Beach 58, La Spezia 79: La Spezia leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Huntington Beach 63, La Spezia 87: La Spezia leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Huntington Beach 82, La Spezia 48: Huntington Beach leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Huntington Beach 20, La Spezia 70: La Spezia leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Huntington Beach 42, La Spezia 35: Huntington Beach leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Huntington Beach 28, La Spezia 50: La Spezia leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huntington Beach 33, La Spezia 28: Huntington Beach leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huntington Beach 36, La Spezia 32: Huntington Beach leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huntington Beach and La Spezia.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Huntington Beach
44match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

La Spezia
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

La Spezia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
20 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Huntington BeachLa Spezia

Where the figures come from

La Spezia's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

La Spezia has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuntington BeachLa Spezia
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m3 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuntington BeachLa Spezia
City population198,71192,119
People per km²2,4061,792
Museums within 10 km312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.