VacationSelector

Bucharest 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

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

BucharestGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
BucharestGenoa
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km337
Coast distance198 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestGenoa
Score6750
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4114
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 6 points.6
BucharestGenoa
Score4955
Museums within 10 km7347
Museums within 2 km of centre4033
Share of museums within 2 km %5570
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 12 points.12
BucharestGenoa
Score6250
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5366
Nightclubs within 4 km8017
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 1 points.1
BucharestGenoa
Score3635
Protected land share 50 km %48
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km133 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 30 points.30
BucharestGenoa
Score6838
Tourist attractions within 2 km4521
Park area within 2 km133 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Bucharest and Genoa are level on 61.
BucharestGenoa
Score6161
Notable places within 2 km130130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestGenoa
Score8568
Price level global40.964.9
Daily budget€99€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 10 points.10
BucharestGenoa
Score6373
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months13
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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestGenoa
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
AthensATH
1 h 35 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
DohaDOH
4 h 20 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
5 h 50 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBucharestGenoa
Official languageRomanianItalian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)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
Elevation70 m20 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestGenoa
City population1,716,961558,745
People per km²7,5972,325
Museums within 10 km4151
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6841
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.