VacationSelector

Bangkok or Genoa?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Genoa
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.

BangkokGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 33 points.33
BangkokGenoa
Score4073
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km037
Coast distance23 km0 km
Water distance23 km0 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 33 points.33
BangkokGenoa
Score8350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2614
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 9 points.9
BangkokGenoa
Score4655
Museums within 10 km10347
Museums within 2 km of centre3033
Share of museums within 2 km %2970
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 33 points.33
BangkokGenoa
Score8350
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4166
Nightclubs within 4 km7217
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 16 points.16
BangkokGenoa
Score5135
Protected land share 50 km %8
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8361
Park area within 2 km42 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 19 points.19
BangkokGenoa
Score5738
Tourist attractions within 2 km3121
Park area within 2 km42 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 13 points.13
BangkokGenoa
Score4861
Notable places within 2 km62130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokGenoa
Score9368
Price level global29.764.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 17 points.17
BangkokGenoa
Score5673
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months33
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokGenoa
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
DohaDOH
6 h 55 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
11 h 25 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

MeasureBangkokGenoa
Official languageThaiItalian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m20 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokGenoa
City population5,676,648558,745
People per km²3,6192,325
Museums within 10 km5951
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9141
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.