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La Spezia or Limassol?

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

Your match

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Limassol
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

La SpeziaLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 6 points.6
La SpeziaLimassol
Score7379
Swim season months46
Beaches 10 km3227
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Limassol leads by 12 points.12
La SpeziaLimassol
Score3143
Restaurants within 2 km of centre235298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1119
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 2 points.2
La SpeziaLimassol
Score4244
Museums within 10 km1517
Museums within 2 km of centre1010
Share of museums within 2 km %6759
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 15 points.15
La SpeziaLimassol
Score2439
Drinking venues within 4 km208340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8575
Nightclubs within 4 km120
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 30 points.30
La SpeziaLimassol
Score5222
Protected land share 50 km %132
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5149
Park area within 2 km23 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. La Spezia leads by 4 points.4
La SpeziaLimassol
Score2016
Tourist attractions within 2 km33
Park area within 2 km23 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Limassol leads by 7 points.7
La SpeziaLimassol
Score714
Notable places within 2 km69
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 2 points.2
La SpeziaLimassol
Score6870
Price level global64.961.4
Daily budget€155€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 15 points.15
La SpeziaLimassol
Score7085
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months28
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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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

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). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 10 m
€104-116
PSA · 65 km
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 51 km
BristolBRS
2 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 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 SpeziaLimassol
Official languageItalianTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaLimassol
City population92,119107,970
People per km²1,7922,405
Museums within 10 km122
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre2228
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.