VacationSelector

La Spezia or New Orleans?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

New Orleans
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

La SpeziaNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 34 points.34
La SpeziaNew Orleans
Score7339
Swim season months47
Beaches 10 km323
Coast distance0 km21 km
Water distance0 km17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 30 points.30
La SpeziaNew Orleans
Score3161
Restaurants within 2 km of centre235803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1125
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 3 points.3
La SpeziaNew Orleans
Score4245
Museums within 10 km1542
Museums within 2 km of centre1030
Share of museums within 2 km %6771
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 30 points.30
La SpeziaNew Orleans
Score2454
Drinking venues within 4 km208704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8570
Nightclubs within 4 km141
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 27 points.27
La SpeziaNew Orleans
Score5225
Protected land share 50 km %134
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5189
Park area within 2 km23 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 26 points.26
La SpeziaNew Orleans
Score2046
Tourist attractions within 2 km322
Park area within 2 km23 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. New Orleans leads by 33 points.33
La SpeziaNew Orleans
Score740
Notable places within 2 km640
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 25 points.25
La SpeziaNew Orleans
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 2 points.2
La SpeziaNew Orleans
Score7068
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months20
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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
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
New Orleans
No sunshine record

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

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaNew Orleans
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 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 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 centre81 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre2239
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months7 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.