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The cathedral and the Leaning Tower, Pisa
PisaThe cathedral and the Leaning Tower
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Pisa by Bruno Kraler, Pexels License; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Pisa or Santa Fe?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Pisa for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Pisa’s own page.

Choose Santa Fe for

  • shopping
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Pisa 58, Santa Fe 5: Pisa leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Pisa 55, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Pisa 68, Santa Fe 66: Pisa leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Pisa 40, Santa Fe 22: Pisa leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Pisa 62, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Pisa 92, Santa Fe 70: Pisa leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Pisa 52, Santa Fe 45: Pisa leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Pisa 76, Santa Fe 40: Pisa leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Pisa 38, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Pisa 55, Santa Fe 30: Pisa leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Pisa 38, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Pisa 45, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Pisa and Santa Fe.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Pisa
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on shopping and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Pisa in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePisaSanta Fe
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation4 m2,134 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaSanta Fe
City population88,73787,505
People per km²479645
Museums within 10 km2710
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.