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La Spezia or Las Vegas?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

La SpeziaLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
La SpeziaLas Vegas
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km320
Coast distance0 km372 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 31 points.31
La SpeziaLas Vegas
Score3162
Restaurants within 2 km of centre235915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1124
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 23 points.23
La SpeziaLas Vegas
Score4219
Museums within 10 km1524
Museums within 2 km of centre104
Share of museums within 2 km %6717
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 34 points.34
La SpeziaLas Vegas
Score2458
Drinking venues within 4 km208793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8561
Nightclubs within 4 km190
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 11 points.11
La SpeziaLas Vegas
Score5263
Protected land share 50 km %1350
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Las Vegas leads by 14 points.14
La SpeziaLas Vegas
Score2034
Tourist attractions within 2 km319
Park area within 2 km23 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 44 points.44
La SpeziaLas Vegas
Score751
Notable places within 2 km675
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 25 points.25
La SpeziaLas Vegas
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 2 points.2
La SpeziaLas Vegas
Score7072
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months212
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
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaLas Vegas
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureLa SpeziaLas Vegas
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m610 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaLas Vegas
City population92,119641,903
People per km²1,7921,843
Museums within 10 km1221
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2249
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.