VacationSelector

Pisa or Thessaloniki?

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 museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PisaThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 34 points.34
PisaThessaloniki
Score2155
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance10 km0 km
Water distance10 km0 km
Places to eat. Thessaloniki leads by 16 points.16
PisaThessaloniki
Score3450
Restaurants within 2 km of centre379640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km915
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 6 points.6
PisaThessaloniki
Score5549
Museums within 10 km2734
Museums within 2 km of centre2222
Share of museums within 2 km %8165
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 39 points.39
PisaThessaloniki
Score2867
Drinking venues within 4 km2321,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8857
Nightclubs within 4 km361
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 26 points.26
PisaThessaloniki
Score3965
Protected land share 50 km %925
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6583
Park area within 2 km40 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 6 points.6
PisaThessaloniki
Score4741
Tourist attractions within 2 km2016
Park area within 2 km40 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 9 points.9
PisaThessaloniki
Score4756
Notable places within 2 km5898
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.6
PisaThessaloniki
Score6874
Price level global64.955.8
Daily budget€155€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 2 points.2
PisaThessaloniki
Score7072
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months29
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPisaThessaloniki
AthensATH
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€156-243
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 50 m
€155-238
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 10 m
€104-116
PSA · 4 km
1 h 15 m
€86-115
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasurePisaThessaloniki
Official languageItalianGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation4 m6 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaThessaloniki
City population88,737309,617
People per km²47916,042
Museums within 10 km2731
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2945
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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.