VacationSelector

La Spezia or Toronto?

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.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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 SpeziaToronto
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 30 points.30
La SpeziaToronto
Score7343
Swim season months41
Beaches 10 km3258
Coast distance0 km533 km
Water distance0 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 51 points.51
La SpeziaToronto
Score3182
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2352,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1139
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 1 points.1
La SpeziaToronto
Score4243
Museums within 10 km1535
Museums within 2 km of centre1025
Share of museums within 2 km %6771
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 45 points.45
La SpeziaToronto
Score2469
Drinking venues within 4 km2081,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8564
Nightclubs within 4 km1103
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 26 points.26
La SpeziaToronto
Score5226
Protected land share 50 km %132
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 37 points.37
La SpeziaToronto
Score2057
Tourist attractions within 2 km323
Park area within 2 km23 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 54 points.54
La SpeziaToronto
Score761
Notable places within 2 km6128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 14 points.14
La SpeziaToronto
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 15 points.15
La SpeziaToronto
Score7055
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months20
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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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Toronto
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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 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 SpeziaToronto
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m76 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaToronto
City population92,1192,794,356
People per km²1,7924,434
Museums within 10 km1232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre22102
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months1 month

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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.