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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0.

La Spezia or Punta Cana?

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
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’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, Punta Cana 94: Punta Cana leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Punta Cana 30: La Spezia leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Punta Cana 8: La Spezia leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Punta Cana 40: Punta Cana leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Punta Cana 52: La Spezia leads by 27 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Punta Cana 35: La Spezia leads by 52 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Punta Cana 68: Punta Cana leads by 20 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Punta Cana 15: La Spezia leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Punta Cana 30: La Spezia leads by 5 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Punta Cana 44: La Spezia leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Punta Cana 15: La Spezia leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Punta Cana 52: Punta Cana leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Punta Cana.

Your match

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

La Spezia
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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La SpeziaPunta Cana

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.

Punta Cana 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). Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaPunta Cana
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m28 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaPunta Cana
City population92,119138,919
People per km²1,792292
Museums within 10 km120
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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.