VacationSelector

La Spezia or Shanghai?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

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

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Scoreboard

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

La SpeziaShanghai
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 56 points.56
La SpeziaShanghai
Score7317
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km320
Coast distance0 km18 km
Water distance0 km18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 3 points.3
La SpeziaShanghai
Score4245
Museums within 10 km15108
Museums within 2 km of centre1028
Share of museums within 2 km %6726
Unesco sites within 50 km20
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 10 points.10
La SpeziaShanghai
Score5242
Protected land share 50 km %139
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5182
Park area within 2 km23 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 61 points.61
La SpeziaShanghai
Score2081
Tourist attractions within 2 km386
Park area within 2 km23 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km210
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 44 points.44
La SpeziaShanghai
Score751
Notable places within 2 km673
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 11 points.11
La SpeziaShanghai
Score6879
Price level global64.949
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 5 points.5
La SpeziaShanghai
Score7065
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm43 mm to 216 mm
Dry months20
0255075100

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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4

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). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaShanghai
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 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 SpeziaShanghai
Official languageItalianPutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation3 m4 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaShanghai
City population92,11924,870,895
People per km²1,7923,922
Museums within 10 km1244
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2264
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 months

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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.