VacationSelector

La Spezia or London?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

La SpeziaLondon
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
La SpeziaLondon
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km3247
Coast distance0 km43 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. London leads by 57 points.57
La SpeziaLondon
Score3188
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2353,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1140
Museums & heritage. London leads by 30 points.30
La SpeziaLondon
Score4272
Museums within 10 km15148
Museums within 2 km of centre1049
Share of museums within 2 km %6733
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. London leads by 71 points.71
La SpeziaLondon
Score2495
Drinking venues within 4 km2085,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1762,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8546
Nightclubs within 4 km1312
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 12 points.12
La SpeziaLondon
Score5240
Protected land share 50 km %1316
Landscape blanket share 50 km %014
Land share of disc %5197
Park area within 2 km23 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 55 points.55
La SpeziaLondon
Score2075
Tourist attractions within 2 km385
Park area within 2 km23 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. London leads by 82 points.82
La SpeziaLondon
Score789
Notable places within 2 km6649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 14 points.14
La SpeziaLondon
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 7 points.7
La SpeziaLondon
Score7063
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months21
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
London
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaLondon
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
STN · 49 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
IbizaIBZ
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 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 SpeziaLondon
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation3 m4 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaLondon
City population92,1198,799,728
People per km²1,7925,598
Museums within 10 km12215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre22116
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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.