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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

La Spezia or Palm 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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm 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, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Palm Beach 47: La Spezia leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Palm Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Palm Beach 58: La Spezia leads by 21 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Palm Beach 55: La Spezia leads by 32 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 14 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Palm Beach 32: La Spezia leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 31 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Palm Beach 12: La Spezia leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

La Spezia
51match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

Palm Beach
49match

Wins on shopping and wellness 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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 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). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaPalm Beach
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 m2 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaPalm Beach
City population92,1199,245
People per km²1,792322
Museums within 10 km124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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.