VacationSelector

La Spezia or Seattle?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

La SpeziaSeattle
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 13 points.13
La SpeziaSeattle
Score7360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km32100
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 44 points.44
La SpeziaSeattle
Score3175
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2351,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1135
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 6 points.6
La SpeziaSeattle
Score4236
Museums within 10 km1528
Museums within 2 km of centre1017
Share of museums within 2 km %6761
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 33 points.33
La SpeziaSeattle
Score2457
Drinking venues within 4 km208873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8580
Nightclubs within 4 km134
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 12 points.12
La SpeziaSeattle
Score5240
Protected land share 50 km %139
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5180
Park area within 2 km23 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 26 points.26
La SpeziaSeattle
Score2046
Tourist attractions within 2 km317
Park area within 2 km23 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 45 points.45
La SpeziaSeattle
Score752
Notable places within 2 km676
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 25 points.25
La SpeziaSeattle
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 9 points.9
La SpeziaSeattle
Score7061
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months23
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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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Seattle
No sunshine record

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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaSeattle
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 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 SpeziaSeattle
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m40 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaSeattle
City population92,119737,015
People per km²1,7921,996
Museums within 10 km1227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2278
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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.