VacationSelector

Pisa or York?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Pisa
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

PisaYork
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
PisaYork
Score210
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance10 km50 km
Water distance10 km
Places to eat. York leads by 20 points.20
PisaYork
Score3454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre379361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km931
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 9 points.9
PisaYork
Score5546
Museums within 10 km2718
Museums within 2 km of centre2216
Share of museums within 2 km %8189
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. York leads by 15 points.15
PisaYork
Score2843
Drinking venues within 4 km232450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8878
Nightclubs within 4 km314
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 6 points.6
PisaYork
Score3933
Protected land share 50 km %917
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %6595
Park area within 2 km40 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 4 points.4
PisaYork
Score4743
Tourist attractions within 2 km2013
Park area within 2 km40 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 8 points.8
PisaYork
Score4739
Notable places within 2 km5837
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 14 points.14
PisaYork
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 14 points.14
PisaYork
Score7056
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months21
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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F
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A
M
J
J
A
S
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPisaYork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 10 m
€104-116
PSA · 4 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
GironaGRO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasurePisaYork
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation4 m25 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaYork
City population88,737208,400
People per km²479766
Museums within 10 km2724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre2954
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. 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.