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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Spezia or Orange Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Orange Beach for

  • families
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange Beach’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, Orange Beach 86: Orange Beach leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Orange Beach 40: La Spezia leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Orange Beach 7: La Spezia leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Orange Beach 30: Orange Beach leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Orange Beach 60: La Spezia leads by 19 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Orange Beach 50: La Spezia leads by 37 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Orange Beach 75: Orange Beach leads by 27 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Orange Beach 15: La Spezia leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Orange Beach 25: La Spezia leads by 10 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Orange Beach 38: La Spezia leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Orange Beach 32: Orange Beach leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia and Orange Beach are level on 32.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Orange Beach.

Your match

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

La Spezia
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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). Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaOrange Beach
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 m4 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaOrange Beach
City population92,1198,095
People per km²1,792196
Museums within 10 km120
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.