VacationSelector

Dubai 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

Dubai
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Genoa
56
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

DubaiGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 27 points.27
DubaiGenoa
Score10073
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km5237
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 16 points.16
DubaiGenoa
Score6650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2614
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 17 points.17
DubaiGenoa
Score3855
Museums within 10 km2647
Museums within 2 km of centre1833
Share of museums within 2 km %6970
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 3 points.3
DubaiGenoa
Score5350
Drinking venues within 4 km601637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5166
Nightclubs within 4 km8417
Nature & day trips. Genoa leads by 17 points.17
DubaiGenoa
Score1835
Protected land share 50 km %48
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5261
Park area within 2 km13 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 11 points.11
DubaiGenoa
Score4938
Tourist attractions within 2 km3721
Park area within 2 km13 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 24 points.24
DubaiGenoa
Score3761
Notable places within 2 km33130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 1 points.1
DubaiGenoa
Score6968
Price level global63.464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 7 points.7
DubaiGenoa
Score6673
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months123
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
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. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiGenoa
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
MadridMAD
7 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
CairoCAI, SPX, CCE
3 h 30 m
€196-225
DXB · 7 km
3 h 45 m
€206-448
MXP · 137 km
LisbonLIS
7 h 55 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€318-438
DXB · 7 km
3 h 50 m
€119-204
MXP · 137 km
BudapestBUD
5 h 25 m
€345-378
DXB · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€39-54
MXP · 137 km
PraguePRG
5 h 55 m
€275-303
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€44-94
MXP · 137 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
15 h 0 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
7 h 35 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
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

MeasureDubaiGenoa
Official languageArabicItalian
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m20 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiGenoa
City population3,944,751558,745
People per km²2,325
Museums within 10 km1451
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5241
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.