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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

La Spezia or New Orleans?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: La Spezia leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 57 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, New Orleans 42: La Spezia leads by 37 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, New Orleans 52: La Spezia leads by 35 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 7 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, New Orleans 55: La Spezia leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 19 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, New Orleans 40: La Spezia leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, New Orleans 25: La Spezia leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and New Orleans.

Your match

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

La Spezia
51match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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La SpeziaNew Orleans

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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaNew Orleans
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m-2 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaNew Orleans
City population92,119383,997
People per km²1,792423
Museums within 10 km1216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months7 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.