VacationSelector

Madrid or Pisa?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

MadridPisa
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
MadridPisa
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance305 km10 km
Water distance10 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 49 points.49
MadridPisa
Score8334
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,508379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km289
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 20 points.20
MadridPisa
Score7555
Museums within 10 km9727
Museums within 2 km of centre5922
Share of museums within 2 km %6181
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 53 points.53
MadridPisa
Score8128
Drinking venues within 4 km2,414232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6288
Nightclubs within 4 km3413
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 24 points.24
MadridPisa
Score6339
Protected land share 50 km %199
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km187 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 30 points.30
MadridPisa
Score7747
Tourist attractions within 2 km6120
Park area within 2 km187 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 28 points.28
MadridPisa
Score7547
Notable places within 2 km28858
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 3 points.3
MadridPisa
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 2 points.2
MadridPisa
Score7270
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months72
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 15 m
€99-166
MAD · 14 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
€109-153
MAD · 14 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 14 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureMadridPisa
Official languageSpanishItalian
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 number112112
Elevation663 m4 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridPisa
City population3,506,73088,737
People per km²5,801479
Museums within 10 km8827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre10629
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.