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The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance
Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour

Photos: Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License.

Keystone 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 Keystone for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose La Spezia for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • 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. Keystone 5, La Spezia 60: La Spezia leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Keystone 27, La Spezia 58: La Spezia leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Keystone 7, La Spezia 40: La Spezia leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Keystone 12, La Spezia 28: La Spezia leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Keystone 93, La Spezia 79: Keystone leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Keystone 55, La Spezia 87: La Spezia leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Keystone 66, La Spezia 48: Keystone leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Keystone 50, La Spezia 70: La Spezia leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Keystone 22, La Spezia 35: La Spezia leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Keystone 12, La Spezia 50: La Spezia leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Keystone 22, La Spezia 28: La Spezia leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Keystone and La Spezia are level on 32.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Keystone and La Spezia.

Your match

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

Keystone
34match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

La Spezia
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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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KeystoneLa Spezia

Where the figures come from

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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.

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. Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKeystoneLa Spezia
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,796 m3 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKeystoneLa Spezia
City population1,36992,119
People per km²131,792
Museums within 10 km012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.