VacationSelector

Alicante or Genoa?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Alicante
56
match

Wins on places to eat and year-round weather with your weighting.

Genoa
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

AlicanteGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 4 points.4
AlicanteGenoa
Score7773
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km3337
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 16 points.16
AlicanteGenoa
Score6650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3114
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 13 points.13
AlicanteGenoa
Score4255
Museums within 10 km1447
Museums within 2 km of centre1133
Share of museums within 2 km %7970
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteGenoa
Score5150
Drinking venues within 4 km591637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8366
Nightclubs within 4 km5417
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 5 points.5
AlicanteGenoa
Score4035
Protected land share 50 km %78
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5961
Park area within 2 km60 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 4 points.4
AlicanteGenoa
Score4238
Tourist attractions within 2 km1321
Park area within 2 km60 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 35 points.35
AlicanteGenoa
Score2661
Notable places within 2 km18130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 3 points.3
AlicanteGenoa
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteGenoa
Score8773
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months113
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
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteGenoa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 127 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€56-140
VLC · 127 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 137 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 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 2026-08 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureAlicanteGenoa
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m20 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteGenoa
City population366,221558,745
People per km²1,8192,325
Museums within 10 km851
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5241
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.