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La Spezia or Tampa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

La SpeziaTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 2 points.2
La SpeziaTampa
Score7375
Swim season months48
Beaches 10 km3210
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 23 points.23
La SpeziaTampa
Score3154
Restaurants within 2 km of centre235359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1131
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 15 points.15
La SpeziaTampa
Score4227
Museums within 10 km1513
Museums within 2 km of centre1010
Share of museums within 2 km %6777
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Tampa leads by 15 points.15
La SpeziaTampa
Score2439
Drinking venues within 4 km208324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8570
Nightclubs within 4 km126
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 22 points.22
La SpeziaTampa
Score5230
Protected land share 50 km %136
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5172
Park area within 2 km23 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Tampa leads by 10 points.10
La SpeziaTampa
Score2030
Tourist attractions within 2 km33
Park area within 2 km23 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Tampa leads by 14 points.14
La SpeziaTampa
Score721
Notable places within 2 km613
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 25 points.25
La SpeziaTampa
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 5 points.5
La SpeziaTampa
Score7075
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months21
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
EdinburghEDI
2 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 115 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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 SpeziaTampa
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m30 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaTampa
City population92,119384,959
People per km²1,792848
Museums within 10 km126
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2247
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 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.