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Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island
Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour

Photos: Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License.

Hurghada 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 Hurghada for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose La Spezia for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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. Hurghada 84, La Spezia 60: Hurghada leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Hurghada 34, La Spezia 58: La Spezia leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Hurghada 14, La Spezia 40: La Spezia leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Hurghada 40, La Spezia 28: Hurghada leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hurghada 72, La Spezia 79: La Spezia leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Hurghada 30, La Spezia 87: La Spezia leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Hurghada 62, La Spezia 48: Hurghada leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Hurghada 22, La Spezia 70: La Spezia leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Hurghada 24, La Spezia 35: La Spezia leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Hurghada 80, La Spezia 50: Hurghada leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hurghada 10, La Spezia 28: La Spezia leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hurghada 44, La Spezia 32: Hurghada leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hurghada and La Spezia.

Your match

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

Hurghada
43match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

La Spezia
Best match
51match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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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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. Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHurghadaLa Spezia
Official languageArabicItalian
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation11 m3 m
Main airportHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHurghadaLa Spezia
City population214,24792,119
People per km²-1,792
Museums within 10 km112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.