VacationSelector

Pisa or Valencia?

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 with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

PisaValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 46 points.46
PisaValencia
Score2167
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km112
Coast distance10 km3 km
Water distance10 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 44 points.44
PisaValencia
Score3478
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3791,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km933
Museums & heritage. Pisa and Valencia are level on 55.
PisaValencia
Score5555
Museums within 10 km2759
Museums within 2 km of centre2226
Share of museums within 2 km %8144
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 42 points.42
PisaValencia
Score2870
Drinking venues within 4 km2321,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8863
Nightclubs within 4 km3108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 14 points.14
PisaValencia
Score3953
Protected land share 50 km %910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6564
Park area within 2 km40 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 5 points.5
PisaValencia
Score4742
Tourist attractions within 2 km2012
Park area within 2 km40 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 5 points.5
PisaValencia
Score4752
Notable places within 2 km5878
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 3 points.3
PisaValencia
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 14 points.14
PisaValencia
Score7084
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months28
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPisaValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 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

MeasurePisaValencia
Official languageItalianSpanish
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 m15 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaValencia
City population88,737840,792
People per km²4796,242
Museums within 10 km2746
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre2992
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.