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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

La Spezia or Stockholm?

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

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: La Spezia leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Stockholm 72: La Spezia leads by 7 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Stockholm 68: La Spezia leads by 19 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 34 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Stockholm 30: La Spezia leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Stockholm.

Your match

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

La Spezia
51match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 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.

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaStockholm
Official languageItalianSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m22 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaStockholm
City population92,119984,748
People per km²1,7925,260
Museums within 10 km12266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.