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La Spezia or Rotterdam?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

La SpeziaRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 36 points.36
La SpeziaRotterdam
Score7337
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km3222
Coast distance0 km24 km
Water distance0 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 41 points.41
La SpeziaRotterdam
Score3172
Restaurants within 2 km of centre235862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1146
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 18 points.18
La SpeziaRotterdam
Score4260
Museums within 10 km1541
Museums within 2 km of centre1020
Share of museums within 2 km %6749
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 25 points.25
La SpeziaRotterdam
Score2449
Drinking venues within 4 km208542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8570
Nightclubs within 4 km140
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 10 points.10
La SpeziaRotterdam
Score5242
Protected land share 50 km %1310
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5179
Park area within 2 km23 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 42 points.42
La SpeziaRotterdam
Score2062
Tourist attractions within 2 km327
Park area within 2 km23 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km28
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 44 points.44
La SpeziaRotterdam
Score751
Notable places within 2 km674
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 10 points.10
La SpeziaRotterdam
Score6858
Price level global64.979.2
Daily budget€155€181
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 14 points.14
La SpeziaRotterdam
Score7056
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months20
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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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 81 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RTM · 5 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 SpeziaRotterdam
Official languageItalianDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaRotterdam
City population92,119664,311
People per km²1,7922,080
Museums within 10 km1240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre2277
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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.