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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
The fountain in Piazza De Ferrari, Genoa
GenoaThe fountain in Piazza De Ferrari

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Genoa by Faber1893, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beijing or Genoa?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Beijing for

  • shopping
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Beijing’s own page.

Choose Genoa for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Genoa’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Beijing 6, Genoa 62: Genoa leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Genoa 72: Beijing leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Genoa 76: Beijing leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Genoa 42: Beijing leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Genoa 78: Genoa leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Genoa 83: Beijing leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Beijing and Genoa are level on 64.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Genoa 66: Beijing leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Genoa 48: Beijing leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Genoa 55: Beijing leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Genoa 52: Beijing leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Genoa 35: Beijing leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Genoa.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on shopping and wellness with your weighting.

Genoa
61match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Genoa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Genoa has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Genoa's sunshine is measured 80 km from the centre, at Capo Mele.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingGenoa
Official languagePutonghuaItalian
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m20 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingGenoa
City population21,893,095558,745
People per km²1,3342,325
Museums within 10 km8351
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.