VacationSelector

La Spezia or Madrid?

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 with your weighting.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
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 SpeziaMadrid
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
La SpeziaMadrid
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km324
Coast distance0 km305 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 52 points.52
La SpeziaMadrid
Score3183
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2353,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1128
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 33 points.33
La SpeziaMadrid
Score4275
Museums within 10 km1597
Museums within 2 km of centre1059
Share of museums within 2 km %6761
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 57 points.57
La SpeziaMadrid
Score2481
Drinking venues within 4 km2082,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1761,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8562
Nightclubs within 4 km1341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 11 points.11
La SpeziaMadrid
Score5263
Protected land share 50 km %1319
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 57 points.57
La SpeziaMadrid
Score2077
Tourist attractions within 2 km361
Park area within 2 km23 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 68 points.68
La SpeziaMadrid
Score775
Notable places within 2 km6288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 3 points.3
La SpeziaMadrid
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 2 points.2
La SpeziaMadrid
Score7072
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months27
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaMadrid
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 15 m
€99-166
MAD · 14 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 15 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
2 h 50 m
€109-153
MAD · 14 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 14 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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 SpeziaMadrid
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m663 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaMadrid
City population92,1193,506,730
People per km²1,7925,801
Museums within 10 km1288
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre22106
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. 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.