VacationSelector

Dresden or Genoa?

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

Your match

Dresden
48
match

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

Genoa
✓ Best match
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.

DresdenGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
DresdenGenoa
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2237
Coast distance267 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 11 points.11
DresdenGenoa
Score6150
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4214
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 1 points.1
DresdenGenoa
Score5455
Museums within 10 km6647
Museums within 2 km of centre3433
Share of museums within 2 km %5270
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
DresdenGenoa
Score4250
Drinking venues within 4 km359637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7466
Nightclubs within 4 km4317
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 4 points.4
DresdenGenoa
Score3935
Protected land share 50 km %148
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km80 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 21 points.21
DresdenGenoa
Score5938
Tourist attractions within 2 km3221
Park area within 2 km80 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
DresdenGenoa
Score5361
Notable places within 2 km82130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
DresdenGenoa
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 11 points.11
DresdenGenoa
Score6273
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months43
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
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
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. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenGenoa
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 45 m
€223-292
2 stops
GOA · 7 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 15 m
€176-241
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 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

MeasureDresdenGenoa
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m20 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenGenoa
City population564,904558,745
People per km²1,7202,325
Museums within 10 km7051
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7741
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). 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. 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.