VacationSelector

Manchester or Pisa?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Manchester
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families 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.

ManchesterPisa
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 7 points.7
ManchesterPisa
Score2821
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km101
Coast distance27 km10 km
Water distance27 km10 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 34 points.34
ManchesterPisa
Score6834
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km359
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 13 points.13
ManchesterPisa
Score4255
Museums within 10 km2327
Museums within 2 km of centre1122
Share of museums within 2 km %4881
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 34 points.34
ManchesterPisa
Score6228
Drinking venues within 4 km1,029232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre792203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7788
Nightclubs within 4 km823
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 3 points.3
ManchesterPisa
Score3639
Protected land share 50 km %179
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %9965
Park area within 2 km63 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 15 points.15
ManchesterPisa
Score3247
Tourist attractions within 2 km520
Park area within 2 km63 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 1 points.1
ManchesterPisa
Score4847
Notable places within 2 km6158
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 14 points.14
ManchesterPisa
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 16 points.16
ManchesterPisa
Score5470
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromManchesterPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
PalermoPMO
3 h 5 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 55 m
€352-493
2 stops
MAN · 15 km
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
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 2026-09, 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

MeasureManchesterPisa
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
Elevation38 m4 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterPisa
City population547,62788,737
People per km²4,737479
Museums within 10 km2827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre6329
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). 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. 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.