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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Spezia or Las Vegas?

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 La Spezia for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Las Vegas for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’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. La Spezia 60, Las Vegas 10: La Spezia leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Las Vegas 25: La Spezia leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 60 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Las Vegas 68: La Spezia leads by 11 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Las Vegas 25: La Spezia leads by 62 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Las Vegas 25: La Spezia leads by 23 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Las Vegas 38: La Spezia leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Las Vegas 64: Las Vegas leads by 29 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Las Vegas 35: La Spezia leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Las Vegas 40: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Las Vegas.

Your match

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

La Spezia
Best match
51match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. 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).

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 centre82 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.

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.