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Kathmandu or La Spezia?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
Kathmandu

Photo: Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La Spezia

Photo: Irina Balashova, Pexels License

Your match

Kathmandu
48
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

La Spezia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

KathmanduLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 56 points.56
Food & drink. La Spezia leads by 3 points.3
Culture & sights. Kathmandu leads by 42 points.42
Nightlife. Kathmandu leads by 8 points.8
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia leads by 9 points.9
Day trips. La Spezia leads by 31 points.31
Good for families. La Spezia leads by 28 points.28
Getting around. La Spezia leads by 45 points.45
Shopping & style. Kathmandu leads by 20 points.20
Affordability. Kathmandu leads by 47 points.47
Live music & performing arts. Kathmandu and La Spezia are level on 28.
Wellness & relaxation. Kathmandu leads by 13 points.13
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kathmandu and La Spezia.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyKathmanduLa Spezia
Daytime high29 °C30 °C
Night-time low20 °C18 °C
Rainfall in the month384 mm32 mm
Sunshine4 hours a day11 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea24 °C
Daylight14 hours a day15 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Kathmandu
19
22
26
29
29
29
29
29
28
27
23
20
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Kathmandu
No coastline within reach
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Kathmandu
16
23
37
57
113
260
384
317
211
48
7
10
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Kathmandu
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kathmandu
6
6
7
7
7
5
4
4
5
7
7
7
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Where the figures come from

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKathmanduLa Spezia
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 10 m
€400-446
KTM · 4 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
6 h 55 m
€583-665
1 stop
KTM · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureKathmanduLa Spezia
Official languageNepaliItalian
CurrencyNepalese Rupee (NPR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:45UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 100, ambulance 102, fire 101112
Elevation1,300 m3 m
Main airportTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKathmanduLa Spezia
City population845,76792,119
People per km²17,1211,792
Museums within 10 km912
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.