VacationSelector

Athens or Genoa?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Genoa
56
match

Wins on 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.

AthensGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
AthensGenoa
Score4873
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km1437
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 19 points.19
AthensGenoa
Score6950
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2514
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 18 points.18
AthensGenoa
Score7355
Museums within 10 km12247
Museums within 2 km of centre7833
Share of museums within 2 km %6470
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Athens leads by 31 points.31
AthensGenoa
Score8150
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5066
Nightclubs within 4 km13617
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 10 points.10
AthensGenoa
Score4535
Protected land share 50 km %58
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5061
Park area within 2 km128 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 33 points.33
AthensGenoa
Score7138
Tourist attractions within 2 km6821
Park area within 2 km128 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 14 points.14
AthensGenoa
Score7561
Notable places within 2 km291130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 6 points.6
AthensGenoa
Score7468
Price level global55.864.9
Daily budget€125€155
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 1 points.1
AthensGenoa
Score7473
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months73
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
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
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensGenoa
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
MadridMAD
3 h 30 m
€156-172
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 30 m
€286-308
ATH · 20 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 0 m
€103-128
ATH · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
3 h 50 m
€119-204
MXP · 137 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 35 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
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

MeasureAthensGenoa
Official languageGreekItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m20 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensGenoa
City population643,452558,745
People per km²16,4992,325
Museums within 10 km8851
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8241
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.