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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Spezia or West Palm Beach?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, West Palm Beach 52: La Spezia leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, West Palm Beach 42: West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, West Palm Beach 36: West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, West Palm Beach 58: La Spezia leads by 21 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, West Palm Beach 55: La Spezia leads by 32 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, West Palm Beach 38: La Spezia leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 29 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, West Palm Beach 23: La Spezia leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

La Spezia
51match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on shopping and beaches 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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre82 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

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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. 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.