VacationSelector

Antwerp or Genoa?

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

Your match

Antwerp
51
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

AntwerpGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
AntwerpGenoa
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km137
Coast distance21 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 25 points.25
AntwerpGenoa
Score7550
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4214
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 14 points.14
AntwerpGenoa
Score6955
Museums within 10 km4147
Museums within 2 km of centre2733
Share of museums within 2 km %6670
Unesco sites within 50 km91
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 9 points.9
AntwerpGenoa
Score5950
Drinking venues within 4 km866637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7666
Nightclubs within 4 km7317
Nature & day trips. Genoa leads by 1 points.1
AntwerpGenoa
Score3435
Protected land share 50 km %78
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8061
Park area within 2 km53 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpGenoa
Score4638
Tourist attractions within 2 km1421
Park area within 2 km53 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 7 points.7
AntwerpGenoa
Score5461
Notable places within 2 km88130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpGenoa
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 15 points.15
AntwerpGenoa
Score5873
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months03
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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpGenoa
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 36 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
€118-155
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
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

MeasureAntwerpGenoa
Official languageFrench, German, DutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m20 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpGenoa
City population529,247558,745
People per km²2,5422,325
Museums within 10 km3851
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Distinct cuisines in the centre8041
Swim season, months above 21 °C–4 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.