VacationSelector

La Spezia or Paris?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
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 SpeziaParis
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
La SpeziaParis
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km322
Coast distance0 km149 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 59 points.59
La SpeziaParis
Score3190
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2354,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1133
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 34 points.34
La SpeziaParis
Score4276
Museums within 10 km15185
Museums within 2 km of centre1065
Share of museums within 2 km %6735
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Paris leads by 64 points.64
La SpeziaParis
Score2488
Drinking venues within 4 km2083,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1761,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8545
Nightclubs within 4 km1201
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 4 points.4
La SpeziaParis
Score5248
Protected land share 50 km %1328
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 55 points.55
La SpeziaParis
Score2075
Tourist attractions within 2 km389
Park area within 2 km23 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 87 points.87
La SpeziaParis
Score794
Notable places within 2 km6865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 6 points.6
La SpeziaParis
Score6862
Price level global64.973.7
Daily budget€155€160
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 4 points.4
La SpeziaParis
Score7066
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months21
0255075100

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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Paris
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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaParis
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
BVA · 69 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 20 m
€108-163
CDG · 22 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
1 h 40 m
€103-125
CDG · 22 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 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 SpeziaParis
Official languageItalianFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m27 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaParis
City population92,1192,103,778
People per km²1,79219,960
Museums within 10 km12251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre22169
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.