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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Spezia or Yogyakarta?

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
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: La Spezia leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Yogyakarta 72: La Spezia leads by 7 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Yogyakarta 78: La Spezia leads by 9 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Yogyakarta 40: La Spezia leads by 8 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Yogyakarta 35: La Spezia leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 17 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

La Spezia
51match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on prices 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

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 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.

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaYogyakarta
Official languageItalianIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m113 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaYogyakarta
City population92,119422,732
People per km²1,79213,007
Museums within 10 km1238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.