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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Spezia or Oaxaca?

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
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: La Spezia leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Oaxaca 62: La Spezia leads by 17 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Oaxaca 65: La Spezia leads by 22 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Oaxaca 40: La Spezia leads by 8 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Oaxaca 55: La Spezia leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 27 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Oaxaca 38: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

La Spezia
51match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaOaxaca
Official languageItalianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m1,555 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaOaxaca
City population92,119258,913
People per km²1,7923,028
Museums within 10 km1210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.