VacationSelector

Pisa or Verona?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Verona
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on good for families 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 Pisa if the sea matters: it runs warmer through the year, with four months of sea at 21°C or more and the drier high summer of the two.

Choose Verona for children or for evenings out: far more attractions and park space near the centre, more theme parks within reach, and about twice as many places to drink.

Scoreboard

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

PisaVerona
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
PisaVerona
Score210
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance10 km104 km
Water distance10 km—
Places to eat. Verona leads by 9 points.9
PisaVerona
Score3443
Restaurants within 2 km of centre379477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km913
Museums & heritage. Verona leads by 1 points.1
PisaVerona
Score5556
Museums within 10 km2720
Museums within 2 km of centre2219
Share of museums within 2 km %8195
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Verona leads by 12 points.12
PisaVerona
Score2840
Drinking venues within 4 km232416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8865
Nightclubs within 4 km39
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 3 points.3
PisaVerona
Score3936
Protected land share 50 km %99
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km40 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Verona leads by 22 points.22
PisaVerona
Score4769
Tourist attractions within 2 km2062
Park area within 2 km40 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Verona leads by 6 points.6
PisaVerona
Score4753
Notable places within 2 km5882
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa and Verona are level on 68.
PisaVerona
Score6868
Price level global64.964.9
Daily budget€155€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 5 points.5
PisaVerona
Score7065
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm38 mm to 85 mm
Dry months21
0255075100

Where they differ

Pisa is the one with swimming attached: four months of sea at 21°C or more, where Verona has none, and warmer days overall, 11-30°C against Verona's 7-30°C.

Verona is the stronger city for children and for evenings out: many more attractions near the centre, four theme parks within reach against Pisa's two, more park space, and roughly twice as many places to drink, with far more nightclubs, plus more restaurants near the centre and a wider range of kitchens.

Where they are alike

Museums and heritage are near enough level. Pisa has somewhat more museums; Verona has five UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Pisa's three, so either supports several days of indoor sightseeing.

Both sit in areas where 9% of the surrounding land is protected, and both keep their notable buildings within walking distance of the centre, Verona a little more so. Places to eat and drink cluster centrally in each rather than scattering.

Which traveller are you?

Travelling with children: Verona. Many more attractions near the centre, more park space, and four theme parks within reach against Pisa's two, most of it manageable on foot.

Wanting to swim: Pisa. Four months of sea at 21°C or more and warmer days across the year, which Verona cannot match despite counting two beaches nearby.

Out after dinner: Verona, with roughly twice as many places to drink and far more nightclubs, most of them central, plus more restaurants and a wider range of kitchens near the centre.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information. It is a national price level applied to both, identical by construction, and the €155 daily figure beside it is one national estimate rather than a measurement of Pisa or Verona. Neither is the cheaper trip on this evidence.

Beach counts mislead in both directions. Verona is credited with more beaches nearby yet has no month of sea at 21°C or more; Pisa has fewer, and its four months of warm sea fall in exactly the weeks the coast is busiest and its rainfall lowest.

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
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Verona
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Verona
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
4
3
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Pisa peaks in high summer: highs near 30°C, sea at 24-25°C, and its driest stretch at 32-35mm a month. Autumn is the catch, with rainfall climbing past 100mm in September and heavier still in October.

Verona is the better pick either side of that, in May and September, when days sit at 24-25°C and rain stays lighter than Pisa's autumn. Its winter is the trade-off, colder than Pisa's at 7°C in January.

Getting there

Flying fromPisaVerona
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€40-90
VRN · 10 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 10 m
€104-116
PSA · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 96 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€185-255
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 106 km
CagliariCAG
1 h 15 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€133-136
VRN · 10 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€99-129
VCE · 106 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
3 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
VRN · 10 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

MeasurePisaVerona
Official languageItalianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation4 m59 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaVerona
City population88,737255,588
People per km²4791,285
Museums within 10 km2718
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre2935
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.