VacationSelector

London or Pisa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

LondonPisa
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
LondonPisa
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km471
Coast distance43 km10 km
Water distance—10 km
Places to eat. London leads by 54 points.54
LondonPisa
Score8834
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km409
Museums & heritage. London leads by 17 points.17
LondonPisa
Score7255
Museums within 10 km14827
Museums within 2 km of centre4922
Share of museums within 2 km %3381
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. London leads by 67 points.67
LondonPisa
Score9528
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4688
Nightclubs within 4 km3123
Nature & day trips. London leads by 1 points.1
LondonPisa
Score4039
Protected land share 50 km %169
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9765
Park area within 2 km84 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 28 points.28
LondonPisa
Score7547
Tourist attractions within 2 km8520
Park area within 2 km84 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. London leads by 42 points.42
LondonPisa
Score8947
Notable places within 2 km64958
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 14 points.14
LondonPisa
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 7 points.7
LondonPisa
Score6370
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months12
0255075100

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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonPisa
TiranaTIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 50 m
no fares
STN · 49 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 55 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 15 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 4 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 2026-08 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureLondonPisa
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m4 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonPisa
City population8,799,72888,737
People per km²5,598479
Museums within 10 km21527
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre11629
Swim season, months above 21 °C–4 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.