VacationSelector

Cork or Genoa?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CorkGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 45 points.45
CorkGenoa
Score2873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km137
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Cork and Genoa are level on 50.
CorkGenoa
Score5050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3514
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 32 points.32
CorkGenoa
Score2355
Museums within 10 km1047
Museums within 2 km of centre833
Share of museums within 2 km %8070
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 12 points.12
CorkGenoa
Score3850
Drinking venues within 4 km361637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8166
Nightclubs within 4 km917
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 17 points.17
CorkGenoa
Score5235
Protected land share 50 km %8
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7461
Park area within 2 km48 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Genoa leads by 11 points.11
CorkGenoa
Score2738
Tourist attractions within 2 km721
Park area within 2 km48 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 39 points.39
CorkGenoa
Score2261
Notable places within 2 km14130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 11 points.11
CorkGenoa
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 24 points.24
CorkGenoa
Score4973
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
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
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkGenoa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 137 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€223-292
2 stops
GOA · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
BudapestBUD
3 h 5 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
1 h 40 m
€39-54
MXP · 137 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 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

MeasureCorkGenoa
Official languageEnglish, IrishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m20 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkGenoa
City population222,333558,745
People per km²5,9612,325
Museums within 10 km551
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4941
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.