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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Spezia or Miami Beach?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Miami Beach for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’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, Miami Beach 92: Miami Beach leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Miami Beach 62: Miami Beach leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Miami Beach 52: Miami Beach leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Miami Beach 80: Miami Beach leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Miami Beach 52: La Spezia leads by 27 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Miami Beach 55: La Spezia leads by 32 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Miami Beach 60: Miami Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Miami Beach 58: La Spezia leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 20 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Miami Beach 20: La Spezia leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Miami Beach 48: Miami Beach leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Miami Beach.

Your match

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

La Spezia
51match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Miami Beach
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and beaches 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

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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). Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaMiami Beach
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m1 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaMiami Beach
City population92,11982,890
People per km²1,7922,109
Museums within 10 km1214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.