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Boston or Genoa?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Boston
55
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Genoa
56
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BostonGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 13 points.13
BostonGenoa
Score6073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km6837
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 23 points.23
BostonGenoa
Score7350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 12 points.12
BostonGenoa
Score4355
Museums within 10 km7947
Museums within 2 km of centre2733
Share of museums within 2 km %3470
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Boston leads by 8 points.8
BostonGenoa
Score5850
Drinking venues within 4 km886637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5866
Nightclubs within 4 km4317
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 18 points.18
BostonGenoa
Score5335
Protected land share 50 km %128
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7761
Park area within 2 km116 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 15 points.15
BostonGenoa
Score5338
Tourist attractions within 2 km2821
Park area within 2 km116 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 3 points.3
BostonGenoa
Score5861
Notable places within 2 km111130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
BostonGenoa
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 17 points.17
BostonGenoa
Score5673
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonGenoa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
LisbonLIS
6 h 40 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
AthensATH
9 h 40 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
9 h 35 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

MeasureBostonGenoa
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m20 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonGenoa
City population675,647558,745
People per km²2,9102,325
Museums within 10 km5151
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7441
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.