VacationSelector

New York or Pisa?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

New YorkPisa
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 43 points.43
New YorkPisa
Score6421
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km171
Coast distance1 km10 km
Water distance1 km10 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 61 points.61
New YorkPisa
Score9534
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km389
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 5 points.5
New YorkPisa
Score6055
Museums within 10 km11927
Museums within 2 km of centre3122
Share of museums within 2 km %2681
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. New York leads by 61 points.61
New YorkPisa
Score8928
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4888
Nightclubs within 4 km1923
Nature & day trips. New York and Pisa are level on 39.
New YorkPisa
Score3939
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6965
Park area within 2 km134 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 25 points.25
New YorkPisa
Score7247
Tourist attractions within 2 km3720
Park area within 2 km134 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km72
Sights concentration. New York leads by 27 points.27
New YorkPisa
Score7447
Notable places within 2 km26858
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 25 points.25
New YorkPisa
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 12 points.12
New YorkPisa
Score5870
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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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J
A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
New York
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
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
PalermoPMO
9 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
CataniaCTA
9 h 15 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
DublinDUB
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
MadridMAD
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 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

MeasureNew YorkPisa
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m4 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkPisa
City population8,804,19088,737
People per km²7,256479
Museums within 10 km15727
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre13229
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). 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.