VacationSelector

Pisa or Split?

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

Your match

Pisa
45
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Split
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Split if swimming is central to the trip: the sea starts at the centre, dozens of beaches sit nearby, and the evenings offer more places to drink and a wider range of kitchens.

Choose Pisa if you are travelling with children or want museums close together: about twice as many attractions near the centre, 2 theme parks within reach, and the sea 10km away.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PisaSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 52 points.52
PisaSplit
Score2173
Swim season months44
Beaches 10 km187
Coast distance10 km0 km
Water distance10 km0 km
Places to eat. Split leads by 4 points.4
PisaSplit
Score3438
Restaurants within 2 km of centre379268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km915
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 3 points.3
PisaSplit
Score5552
Museums within 10 km2718
Museums within 2 km of centre2216
Share of museums within 2 km %8189
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Split leads by 13 points.13
PisaSplit
Score2841
Drinking venues within 4 km232379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8869
Nightclubs within 4 km323
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 1 points.1
PisaSplit
Score3938
Protected land share 50 km %99
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6562
Park area within 2 km40 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
PisaSplit
Score4726
Tourist attractions within 2 km209
Park area within 2 km40 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 5 points.5
PisaSplit
Score4742
Notable places within 2 km5843
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 12 points.12
PisaSplit
Score6880
Price level global64.948.5
Daily budget€155€138
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 1 points.1
PisaSplit
Score7069
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months22
0255075100

Where they differ

Pisa is the better base for families: about twice as many tourist attractions near the centre as Split, more park space, and 2 theme parks within reach where Split has none. Swimming means a trip out, with the sea 10km from the centre and a single beach nearby.

Split puts the water at the door: the sea is 0km from the centre, with 87 beaches nearby. Evenings run longer, with about twice as many places to drink as Pisa and many times more nightclubs, most near the centre.

Where they are alike

Weather is where the two are hardest to separate: both run daytime highs of about 11-30°C across the year, each has two months at 40mm of rain or less, and both peak with the sea at 25°C in August.

Elsewhere they sit close on heritage, food and day trips. Pisa has more museums, Split more UNESCO-listed places within reach; 9% of surrounding land is protected in both; and while Pisa has more restaurants near the centre, Split spreads across more kitchens.

Which traveller are you?

If swimming shapes the day, take Split: the sea is 0km from the centre with 87 beaches nearby, and four months of water at 21°C or more. Pisa's one beach sits 10km out.

Families with children are better served in Pisa, with roughly twice as many attractions near the centre, more park space, and 2 theme parks within reach where Split has none.

For long evenings and variety at the table, Split has about twice as many drinking places and many more nightclubs, most of them near the centre, plus a wider spread of kitchens; Pisa has more restaurants close in.

What the numbers don't tell you

Split's beach advantage is a summer one: the sea reaches 21°C or more for four months only, and a centre that opens straight onto the water concentrates those months. Pisa's single beach, 10km out, reads worse but is quieter.

The daily budget figures, €155 and €138, are national price estimates for restaurants and hotels, not measurements of either city. A heavily visited city can sit further from its national average than the gap between the two figures, so neither settles what a trip costs.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Pisa peaks in July and August: highs of 30°C, only 32mm of rain in July and the sea at 25°C by August. September and October are the catch, 102mm then 125mm, so late-season trips carry more risk.

Split's warm window is wider. May is already up at 23°C, and September holds 25°C with 82mm of rain where Pisa gets more, and October is drier in Split too. July is the hottest month at 31°C, with just 25mm of rain.

Getting there

Flying fromPisaSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
1 h 50 m
€171-200
SPU · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€185-255
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 12 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

MeasurePisaSplit
Official languageItalianCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation4 m0 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaSplit
City population88,737160,577
People per km²479–
Museums within 10 km2711
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre2931
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. 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.