VacationSelector

Belfast or Genoa?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on museums & heritage and 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.

BelfastGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
BelfastGenoa
Score4873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1037
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 6 points.6
BelfastGenoa
Score5650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3114
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 26 points.26
BelfastGenoa
Score2955
Museums within 10 km1847
Museums within 2 km of centre633
Share of museums within 2 km %3370
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 2 points.2
BelfastGenoa
Score4850
Drinking venues within 4 km550637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6366
Nightclubs within 4 km2917
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 18 points.18
BelfastGenoa
Score5335
Protected land share 50 km %198
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6561
Park area within 2 km68 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 10 points.10
BelfastGenoa
Score4838
Tourist attractions within 2 km1621
Park area within 2 km68 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 19 points.19
BelfastGenoa
Score4261
Notable places within 2 km43130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
BelfastGenoa
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 22 points.22
BelfastGenoa
Score5173
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBelfastGenoa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 132 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 0 m
€135-197
BFS · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 137 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€93-114
DUB · 132 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
11 h 0 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

MeasureBelfastGenoa
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m20 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastGenoa
City population345,006558,745
People per km²3,0002,325
Museums within 10 km851
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4441
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). 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. 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. 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.