VacationSelector

La Spezia or Naples?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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 Naples if you want a city that works on foot: museums, notable places and places to eat and drink clustered around the centre, plus 5 UNESCO-listed sites within day-trip reach.

Choose La Spezia if you want the sea at the end of the street and quieter country around it, with 13% of the surrounding land protected and a wider spread of kitchens for its size.

Scoreboard

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

La SpeziaNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 3 points.3
La SpeziaNaples
Score7376
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km3229
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Naples leads by 15 points.15
La SpeziaNaples
Score3146
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2351,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km117
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 36 points.36
La SpeziaNaples
Score4278
Museums within 10 km1584
Museums within 2 km of centre1068
Share of museums within 2 km %6781
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Naples leads by 42 points.42
La SpeziaNaples
Score2466
Drinking venues within 4 km2081,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8569
Nightclubs within 4 km140
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 15 points.15
La SpeziaNaples
Score5237
Protected land share 50 km %137
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5156
Park area within 2 km23 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 21 points.21
La SpeziaNaples
Score2041
Tourist attractions within 2 km311
Park area within 2 km23 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 71 points.71
La SpeziaNaples
Score778
Notable places within 2 km6351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia and Naples are level on 68.
La SpeziaNaples
Score6868
Price level global64.964.9
Daily budget€155€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 3 points.3
La SpeziaNaples
Score7073
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months23
0255075100

Where they differ

Naples has many times as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, so a day there needs little planning. It also has many times as many museums, and 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against La Spezia's 2. Bars and clubs follow the same pattern, most of them central.

La Spezia's advantage is outward: 13% of the land around it is protected against 7% around Naples, and the sea starts at the centre, 0km away. Its restaurants cover a wider range of kitchens.

Where they are alike

Both are swimming cities. The sea is 0km from La Spezia's centre and 1km from Naples's, and both have a similar number of beaches within reach. August is the warmest water in both, at 25-26°C.

Their weather profiles are close too: hot, dry summers, mild winters and heavy autumn rain, with Naples marginally the warmer year-round. Neither is a family-first destination, and both offer moderate rather than deep choice for eating out.

Which traveller are you?

Someone who wants museums and old streets should take Naples. The concentration of notable places within walking distance means whole days without transport, and 5 UNESCO-listed sites sit within day-trip range.

A swimmer is well served by both, but La Spezia puts the sea 0km from the centre and has slightly more beaches nearby, while Naples holds swimmable water about a month longer.

Walkers should look at La Spezia, with 13% of the surrounding land protected. Families lean the other way: Naples has around three times as many central attractions, more park space and 3 theme parks within reach.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information: it is a national price level, identical for both by construction, and the €155 daily budget beside it is one estimate for the country rather than a measurement of either city. Nothing here tells you which trip costs more.

The beach and weather strengths need reading carefully too. The warmest sea comes in the months when both are busiest, and the wet season follows immediately, with 125-159mm across autumn. Naples's walkable concentration describes the centre only, while La Spezia's strength lies outside the city, which means time spent travelling.

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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Naples
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
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
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). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

La Spezia is at its best from June to September, when highs run 27-30°C and the sea holds 22-25°C. Rain is lowest in midsummer. October and November bring 125-132mm, which ends the season abruptly.

Naples works across a longer stretch: May already reaches 24°C, and October stays warm enough to swim with noticeably less rain than La Spezia at the same point. High summer is drier there too, at 17-18mm. November, at 159mm, is the wettest month in either city.

Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaNaples
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 0 m
€39-94
NAP · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
1 h 5 m
€36-65
NAP · 7 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
CagliariCAG
1 h 15 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
3 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 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 SpeziaNaples
Official languageItalianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m17 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaNaples
City population92,119913,462
People per km²1,7927,676
Museums within 10 km1265
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre2231
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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.