VacationSelector

Chicago 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, level with your weighting

Chicago
56
match

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

Genoa
56
match

Wins on value for money 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.

ChicagoGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 20 points.20
ChicagoGenoa
Score5373
Swim season months14
Beaches 10 km1237
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 31 points.31
ChicagoGenoa
Score8150
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,147691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3714
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 9 points.9
ChicagoGenoa
Score4655
Museums within 10 km4547
Museums within 2 km of centre2033
Share of museums within 2 km %4470
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 12 points.12
ChicagoGenoa
Score6250
Drinking venues within 4 km1,123637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre728419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6566
Nightclubs within 4 km5117
Nature & day trips. Chicago leads by 3 points.3
ChicagoGenoa
Score3835
Protected land share 50 km %68
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km118 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 17 points.17
ChicagoGenoa
Score5538
Tourist attractions within 2 km1821
Park area within 2 km118 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 9 points.9
ChicagoGenoa
Score7061
Notable places within 2 km217130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
ChicagoGenoa
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 16 points.16
ChicagoGenoa
Score5773
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 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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F
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A
M
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
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
Chicago
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoGenoa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
MadridMAD
8 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 15 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
AthensATH
11 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
DohaDOH
14 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 50 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
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

MeasureChicagoGenoa
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m20 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoGenoa
City population2,746,388558,745
People per km²4,5292,325
Museums within 10 km4351
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8741
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month4 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.