VacationSelector

La Spezia or Philadelphia?

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.

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

La SpeziaPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
La SpeziaPhiladelphia
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km321
Coast distance0 km13 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 46 points.46
La SpeziaPhiladelphia
Score3177
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2351,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1135
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 18 points.18
La SpeziaPhiladelphia
Score4260
Museums within 10 km1589
Museums within 2 km of centre1048
Share of museums within 2 km %6754
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 35 points.35
La SpeziaPhiladelphia
Score2459
Drinking venues within 4 km208930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8562
Nightclubs within 4 km141
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 3 points.3
La SpeziaPhiladelphia
Score5249
Protected land share 50 km %1314
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5189
Park area within 2 km23 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 33 points.33
La SpeziaPhiladelphia
Score2053
Tourist attractions within 2 km316
Park area within 2 km23 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 47 points.47
La SpeziaPhiladelphia
Score754
Notable places within 2 km688
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 25 points.25
La SpeziaPhiladelphia
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 10 points.10
La SpeziaPhiladelphia
Score7060
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm69 mm to 112 mm
Dry months20
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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
BariBRI
1 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 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 SpeziaPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaPhiladelphia
City population92,1191,603,797
People per km²1,7924,339
Museums within 10 km1254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2275
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. 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.