VacationSelector

Pisa or Vancouver?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming 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.

PisaVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 39 points.39
PisaVancouver
Score2160
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km1109
Coast distance10 km1 km
Water distance10 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 40 points.40
PisaVancouver
Score3474
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3791,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km935
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
PisaVancouver
Score5534
Museums within 10 km2727
Museums within 2 km of centre2215
Share of museums within 2 km %8156
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 29 points.29
PisaVancouver
Score2857
Drinking venues within 4 km232848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8871
Nightclubs within 4 km344
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 38 points.38
PisaVancouver
Score3977
Protected land share 50 km %919
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6560
Park area within 2 km40 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 6 points.6
PisaVancouver
Score4753
Tourist attractions within 2 km2015
Park area within 2 km40 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 1 points.1
PisaVancouver
Score4748
Notable places within 2 km5863
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 14 points.14
PisaVancouver
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 17 points.17
PisaVancouver
Score7053
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months20
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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPisaVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 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

MeasurePisaVancouver
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation4 m2 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaVancouver
City population88,737662,248
People per km²4795,759
Museums within 10 km2726
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2985
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.