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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

La Spezia or Puerto Escondido?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Puerto Escondido 48: La Spezia leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Puerto Escondido 8: La Spezia leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Puerto Escondido 78: La Spezia leads by 1 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Puerto Escondido 35: La Spezia leads by 52 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Puerto Escondido 42: La Spezia leads by 6 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Puerto Escondido 40: La Spezia leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Puerto Escondido 22: La Spezia leads by 13 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Puerto Escondido 12: La Spezia leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

La Spezia
Best match
51match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on wellness 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

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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.

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaPuerto Escondido
Official languageItalianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m60 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaPuerto Escondido
City population92,11929,903
People per km²1,792-
Museums within 10 km120
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.