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The cathedral and the Leaning Tower, Pisa
PisaThe cathedral and the Leaning Tower
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Pisa by Bruno Kraler, Pexels License; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Pisa or St. Pete Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Pisa 55, St. Pete Beach 40: Pisa leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Pisa 68, St. Pete Beach 18: Pisa leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Pisa 40, St. Pete Beach 28: Pisa leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Pisa 62, St. Pete Beach 57: Pisa leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Pisa 92, St. Pete Beach 58: Pisa leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Pisa 52, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Pisa 76, St. Pete Beach 30: Pisa leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Pisa 38, St. Pete Beach 20: Pisa leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Pisa 55, St. Pete Beach 32: Pisa leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Pisa 38, St. Pete Beach 20: Pisa leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Pisa 45, St. Pete Beach 42: Pisa leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Pisa and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Pisa
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and families 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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePisaSt. Pete Beach
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation4 m2 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaSt. Pete Beach
City population88,7378,879
People per km²479173
Museums within 10 km272
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.