VacationSelector

Maastricht or Pisa?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Pisa
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

MaastrichtPisa
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
MaastrichtPisa
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km61
Coast distance118 km10 km
Water distance10 km
Places to eat. Maastricht leads by 14 points.14
MaastrichtPisa
Score4834
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km229
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 2 points.2
MaastrichtPisa
Score5355
Museums within 10 km2327
Museums within 2 km of centre1322
Share of museums within 2 km %5781
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Maastricht leads by 2 points.2
MaastrichtPisa
Score3028
Drinking venues within 4 km223232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8288
Nightclubs within 4 km133
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 2 points.2
MaastrichtPisa
Score3739
Protected land share 50 km %199
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km33 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 1 points.1
MaastrichtPisa
Score4647
Tourist attractions within 2 km1520
Park area within 2 km33 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 11 points.11
MaastrichtPisa
Score3647
Notable places within 2 km3258
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 10 points.10
MaastrichtPisa
Score5868
Price level global79.264.9
Daily budget€181€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 11 points.11
MaastrichtPisa
Score5970
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
ValenciaVLC
2 h 20 m
€155
EIN · 70 km
1 h 50 m
€83-161
PSA · 4 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
1 h 35 m
€129-161
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 30 m
no fares
CRL · 97 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 50 m
€109-130
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 40 m
€111-224
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 10 m
€104-116
PSA · 4 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 40 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMaastrichtPisa
Official languageDutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m4 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtPisa
City population120,22788,737
People per km²2,000479
Museums within 10 km2127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre3329
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.