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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

La Spezia or Porto?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Porto for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: La Spezia leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Porto 70: Porto leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Porto 68: Porto leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Porto 65: Porto leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Porto 64: La Spezia leads by 15 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Porto 79: La Spezia leads by 8 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Porto 52: Porto leads by 4 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Porto 66: La Spezia leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Porto 52: Porto leads by 17 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Porto 62: Porto leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Porto 52: Porto leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Porto 34: Porto leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Porto.

Your match

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

La Spezia
51match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights 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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaPorto
Official languageItalianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m104 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaPorto
City population92,119273,476
People per km²1,7926,606
Museums within 10 km1242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.