VacationSelector

Frankfurt 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

Frankfurt
57
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Genoa
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.

FrankfurtGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
FrankfurtGenoa
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km437
Coast distance327 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 20 points.20
FrankfurtGenoa
Score7050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,160691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3114
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 14 points.14
FrankfurtGenoa
Score6955
Museums within 10 km7947
Museums within 2 km of centre4333
Share of museums within 2 km %5470
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 9 points.9
FrankfurtGenoa
Score5950
Drinking venues within 4 km931637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7466
Nightclubs within 4 km5617
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 29 points.29
FrankfurtGenoa
Score6435
Protected land share 50 km %288
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km124 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 30 points.30
FrankfurtGenoa
Score6838
Tourist attractions within 2 km4521
Park area within 2 km124 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Frankfurt and Genoa are level on 61.
FrankfurtGenoa
Score6161
Notable places within 2 km129130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
FrankfurtGenoa
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 11 points.11
FrankfurtGenoa
Score6273
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months13
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
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
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtGenoa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 13 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€226-277
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
AthensATH
2 h 50 m
€178-223
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 50 m
€683-756
FRA · 13 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFrankfurtGenoa
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
Elevation101 m20 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtGenoa
City population775,790558,745
People per km²3,1242,325
Museums within 10 km5351
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre7141
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.