VacationSelector

La Spezia or New York?

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 value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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 York
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 9 points.9
La SpeziaNew York
Score7364
Swim season months43
Beaches 10 km3217
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 64 points.64
La SpeziaNew York
Score3195
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2356,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1138
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 18 points.18
La SpeziaNew York
Score4260
Museums within 10 km15119
Museums within 2 km of centre1031
Share of museums within 2 km %6726
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. New York leads by 65 points.65
La SpeziaNew York
Score2489
Drinking venues within 4 km2084,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1762,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8548
Nightclubs within 4 km1192
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 13 points.13
La SpeziaNew York
Score5239
Protected land share 50 km %134
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5169
Park area within 2 km23 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 52 points.52
La SpeziaNew York
Score2072
Tourist attractions within 2 km337
Park area within 2 km23 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. New York leads by 67 points.67
La SpeziaNew York
Score774
Notable places within 2 km6268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 25 points.25
La SpeziaNew York
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 12 points.12
La SpeziaNew York
Score7058
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm74 mm to 112 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 York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
New York
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
New York
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 York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 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 York
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m25 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaNew York
City population92,1198,804,190
People per km²1,7927,256
Museums within 10 km12157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre22132
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.