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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Spezia or Salt Lake City?

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
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: La Spezia leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Salt Lake City 40: La Spezia leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Salt Lake City 30: Salt Lake City leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 11 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Salt Lake City 34: La Spezia leads by 53 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 24 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Salt Lake City 42: La Spezia leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Salt Lake City 36: Salt Lake City leads by 1 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Salt Lake City 40: La Spezia leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Salt Lake City 55: Salt Lake City leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Salt Lake City 38: Salt Lake City leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Salt Lake City.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaSalt Lake City
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m1,288 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaSalt Lake City
City population92,119199,723
People per km²1,792690
Museums within 10 km1212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.