VacationSelector

Philadelphia or Pisa?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on value for money and 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.

PhiladelphiaPisa
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
PhiladelphiaPisa
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance13 km10 km
Water distance10 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 43 points.43
PhiladelphiaPisa
Score7734
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km359
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 5 points.5
PhiladelphiaPisa
Score6055
Museums within 10 km8927
Museums within 2 km of centre4822
Share of museums within 2 km %5481
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 31 points.31
PhiladelphiaPisa
Score5928
Drinking venues within 4 km930232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6288
Nightclubs within 4 km413
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 10 points.10
PhiladelphiaPisa
Score4939
Protected land share 50 km %149
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8965
Park area within 2 km75 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 6 points.6
PhiladelphiaPisa
Score5347
Tourist attractions within 2 km1620
Park area within 2 km75 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 7 points.7
PhiladelphiaPisa
Score5447
Notable places within 2 km8858
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 25 points.25
PhiladelphiaPisa
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 10 points.10
PhiladelphiaPisa
Score6070
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall69 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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Daytime high, °C
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
PalermoPMO
9 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
CataniaCTA
9 h 15 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
DublinDUB
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BariBRI
9 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
MarrakechRAK
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 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 2026-09 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaPisa
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
Elevation12 m4 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaPisa
City population1,603,79788,737
People per km²4,339479
Museums within 10 km5427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre7529
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.