VacationSelector

Paris or Pisa?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

ParisPisa
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
ParisPisa
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km21
Coast distance149 km10 km
Water distance10 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 56 points.56
ParisPisa
Score9034
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,732379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km339
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 21 points.21
ParisPisa
Score7655
Museums within 10 km18527
Museums within 2 km of centre6522
Share of museums within 2 km %3581
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Paris leads by 60 points.60
ParisPisa
Score8828
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4588
Nightclubs within 4 km2013
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 9 points.9
ParisPisa
Score4839
Protected land share 50 km %289
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km82 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 28 points.28
ParisPisa
Score7547
Tourist attractions within 2 km8920
Park area within 2 km82 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 47 points.47
ParisPisa
Score9447
Notable places within 2 km86558
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 6 points.6
ParisPisa
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 4 points.4
ParisPisa
Score6670
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months12
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 35 m
no fares
BVA · 69 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 25 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 35 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 20 m
€108-163
CDG · 22 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 40 m
€103-125
CDG · 22 km
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
5 h 55 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

MeasureParisPisa
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation27 m4 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisPisa
City population2,103,77888,737
People per km²19,960479
Museums within 10 km25127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre16929
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.