VacationSelector

La Spezia or West Palm Beach?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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 SpeziaWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 15 points.15
La SpeziaWest Palm Beach
Score7388
Swim season months412
Beaches 10 km3210
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. West Palm Beach leads by 6 points.6
La SpeziaWest Palm Beach
Score3137
Restaurants within 2 km of centre235262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1114
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 25 points.25
La SpeziaWest Palm Beach
Score4217
Museums within 10 km155
Museums within 2 km of centre103
Share of museums within 2 km %6760
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. La Spezia leads by 4 points.4
La SpeziaWest Palm Beach
Score2420
Drinking venues within 4 km208132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre17690
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8568
Nightclubs within 4 km110
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 17 points.17
La SpeziaWest Palm Beach
Score5269
Protected land share 50 km %1315
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5145
Park area within 2 km23 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. West Palm Beach leads by 1 points.1
La SpeziaWest Palm Beach
Score2021
Tourist attractions within 2 km33
Park area within 2 km23 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. West Palm Beach leads by 5 points.5
La SpeziaWest Palm Beach
Score712
Notable places within 2 km68
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 25 points.25
La SpeziaWest Palm Beach
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 5 points.5
La SpeziaWest Palm Beach
Score7075
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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 SpeziaWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaWest Palm Beach
City population92,119117,415
People per km²1,792786
Museums within 10 km124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2218
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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.