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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

La Spezia or Yokohama?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: La Spezia leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Yokohama 66: La Spezia leads by 13 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Yokohama 86: La Spezia leads by 1 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 38 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 25 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Yokohama.

Your match

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

La Spezia
51match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on families 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °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.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaYokohama
Official languageItalianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation3 m24 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaYokohama
City population92,1193,757,630
People per km²1,7928,585
Museums within 10 km1238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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.