VacationSelector

Faro or Genoa?

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

Your match

Faro
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Genoa
✓ Best match
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.

FaroGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 12 points.12
FaroGenoa
Score6173
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km1337
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Genoa leads by 6 points.6
FaroGenoa
Score4450
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2214
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 33 points.33
FaroGenoa
Score2255
Museums within 10 km947
Museums within 2 km of centre833
Share of museums within 2 km %8970
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 29 points.29
FaroGenoa
Score2150
Drinking venues within 4 km143637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8666
Nightclubs within 4 km817
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 22 points.22
FaroGenoa
Score5735
Protected land share 50 km %118
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4261
Park area within 2 km34 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Genoa leads by 2 points.2
FaroGenoa
Score3638
Tourist attractions within 2 km1021
Park area within 2 km34 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 39 points.39
FaroGenoa
Score2261
Notable places within 2 km14130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 6 points.6
FaroGenoa
Score7468
Price level global55.964.9
Daily budget€109€155
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 10 points.10
FaroGenoa
Score8373
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months63
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroGenoa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 142 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 10 m
€141-188
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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureFaroGenoa
Official languagePortugueseItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m20 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroGenoa
City population64,560558,745
People per km²3192,325
Museums within 10 km251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3441
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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.