VacationSelector

La Spezia or Munich?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose La Spezia if the trip is built around swimming and warmth: 32 beaches within reach, a sea that stays at 21°C or more for four months, and mild winters.

Choose Munich if you want a city you can walk: many times more museums, restaurants and bars near the centre, more attractions and park space for children, and a year that does not depend on the sea.

Scoreboard

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

La SpeziaMunich
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
La SpeziaMunich
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km326
Coast distance0 km579 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Munich leads by 42 points.42
La SpeziaMunich
Score3173
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2351,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1135
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 19 points.19
La SpeziaMunich
Score4261
Museums within 10 km1574
Museums within 2 km of centre1048
Share of museums within 2 km %6765
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Munich leads by 43 points.43
La SpeziaMunich
Score2467
Drinking venues within 4 km2081,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8557
Nightclubs within 4 km1103
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 4 points.4
La SpeziaMunich
Score5248
Protected land share 50 km %1317
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 59 points.59
La SpeziaMunich
Score2079
Tourist attractions within 2 km380
Park area within 2 km23 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 61 points.61
La SpeziaMunich
Score768
Notable places within 2 km6196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 8 points.8
La SpeziaMunich
Score6860
Price level global64.975.9
Daily budget€155€163
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 14 points.14
La SpeziaMunich
Score7056
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm46 mm to 121 mm
Dry months20
0255075100

Where they differ

La Spezia is the coastal option: 32 beaches nearby against Munich's 6, and four months of sea at 21°C or more, which Munich has none of. It also runs warmer through the year, with daytime highs of 11-30°C against 4-25°C.

Munich has many times more notable places within walking distance of the centre, so days involve less travel. For families it offers many times more attractions and park space near the centre, though both have 2 theme parks within reach.

Where they are alike

Nature and day trips are near-equal. Protected land makes up 17% of the area around Munich and 13% around La Spezia, so both keep open country within day-trip range.

They are close on cost and on the shape of the year too: the national daily estimates behind them, €155 and €163, sit near each other, and both cities run to a warm July and August and a cold January.

Which traveller are you?

Swimmers and beach-first travellers: La Spezia, with 32 beaches nearby and a sea that holds 21°C or more for four months. Munich has neither the coast nor the sea temperatures to compete.

Families: Munich, on many times more attractions and park space near the centre, with 2 theme parks within reach, the same as La Spezia. Short distances between things matter more with children.

Eating out and evenings: Munich, with many times more restaurants and a much wider range of kitchens, and many times more bars and clubs, about half of them near the centre. La Spezia's few are at least central.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €155 and €163, are national estimates of restaurant and hotel price levels, not measurements of either city. A heavily visited city can sit further from its own national average than these two averages sit from each other, so the gap tells you nothing about which trip costs more.

La Spezia's beach advantage is seasonal: the sea is at 21°C or more for four months, and those months are also the busiest. Munich's attractions, walkable sights and park space are counted near the centre, so a central base matters.

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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

La Spezia's best stretch runs June to August: highs of 27-30°C, sea at 22-25°C, and its driest weather at 32-41mm. September still reaches 26°C but rain jumps to 102mm, and October and November are wetter still at 125-132mm.

Munich's warm window is July and August at 25°C, but those are also its wettest at 117-119mm, as are May and June at 107-121mm. September is the steadier choice, 20°C and 78mm. Winter highs sit at 4-6°C.

Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaMunich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 29 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
1 h 15 m
€159-217
MUC · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 55 m
no fares
FLR · 115 km
1 h 20 m
€164-220
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 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 SpeziaMunich
Official languageItalianGerman
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 m519 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaMunich
City population92,1191,510,378
People per km²1,7924,861
Museums within 10 km1274
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2289
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.