VacationSelector

Edinburgh 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, 2 points apart

Edinburgh
58
match

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

Genoa
56
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

EdinburghGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghGenoa
Score5573
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2037
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 20 points.20
EdinburghGenoa
Score7050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3514
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 2 points.2
EdinburghGenoa
Score5755
Museums within 10 km3047
Museums within 2 km of centre2233
Share of museums within 2 km %7370
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghGenoa
Score6450
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7466
Nightclubs within 4 km6517
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh and Genoa are level on 35.
EdinburghGenoa
Score3535
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8561
Park area within 2 km166 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 34 points.34
EdinburghGenoa
Score7238
Tourist attractions within 2 km8721
Park area within 2 km166 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 1 points.1
EdinburghGenoa
Score6061
Notable places within 2 km126130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghGenoa
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 22 points.22
EdinburghGenoa
Score5173
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghGenoa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 0 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
AthensATH
4 h 0 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€55-94
EDI · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 78 km
11 h 0 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

MeasureEdinburghGenoa
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m20 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghGenoa
City population488,050558,745
People per km²1,8842,325
Museums within 10 km3251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre7841
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). 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.