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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Spezia or Montreal?

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

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Montreal for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Montreal’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, Montreal 25: La Spezia leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Montreal 66: La Spezia leads by 13 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Montreal 55: La Spezia leads by 32 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 20 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 25 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Montreal 45: La Spezia leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Montreal.

Your match

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

La Spezia
51match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaMontreal
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m31 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaMontreal
City population92,1191,895,211
People per km²1,7923,806
Museums within 10 km1237
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.