VacationSelector

Malaga or Pisa?

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

Your match

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

MalagaPisa
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 45 points.45
MalagaPisa
Score6621
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km211
Coast distance0 km10 km
Water distance0 km10 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 35 points.35
MalagaPisa
Score6934
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,002379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km349
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 2 points.2
MalagaPisa
Score5355
Museums within 10 km4027
Museums within 2 km of centre3522
Share of museums within 2 km %8881
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 26 points.26
MalagaPisa
Score5428
Drinking venues within 4 km715232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre486203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6888
Nightclubs within 4 km453
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 4 points.4
MalagaPisa
Score4339
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6365
Park area within 2 km85 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 6 points.6
MalagaPisa
Score5347
Tourist attractions within 2 km3320
Park area within 2 km85 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 10 points.10
MalagaPisa
Score3747
Notable places within 2 km3358
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 3 points.3
MalagaPisa
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 12 points.12
MalagaPisa
Score8270
Monthly daytime high17.2 °C to 31.5 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 88 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months52
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
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. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMalagaPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 9 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 65 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 9 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

MeasureMalagaPisa
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
Elevation18 m4 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaPisa
City population599,06388,737
People per km²1,517479
Museums within 10 km3227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre6529
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 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. 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. 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.