VacationSelector

Calgary or Genoa?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
CalgaryGenoa
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km437
Coast distance649 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 16 points.16
CalgaryGenoa
Score6650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3614
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 46 points.46
CalgaryGenoa
Score955
Museums within 10 km847
Museums within 2 km of centre333
Share of museums within 2 km %3870
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 6 points.6
CalgaryGenoa
Score4450
Drinking venues within 4 km465637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7466
Nightclubs within 4 km1917
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 1 points.1
CalgaryGenoa
Score3635
Protected land share 50 km %48
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km142 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 3 points.3
CalgaryGenoa
Score4138
Tourist attractions within 2 km321
Park area within 2 km142 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 22 points.22
CalgaryGenoa
Score3961
Notable places within 2 km37130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
CalgaryGenoa
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 16 points.16
CalgaryGenoa
Score5773
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months83
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryGenoa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€223-292
2 stops
GOA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
11 h 5 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

MeasureCalgaryGenoa
Official languageFrench, EnglishItalian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m20 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryGenoa
City population1,306,784558,745
People per km²1,5832,325
Museums within 10 km1351
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6741
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). 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. 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.