VacationSelector

Genoa or Ghent?

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

Your match

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Ghent
50
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

GenoaGhent
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 47 points.47
GenoaGhent
Score7326
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km378
Coast distance0 km32 km
Water distance0 km32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 20 points.20
GenoaGhent
Score5070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1449
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 3 points.3
GenoaGhent
Score5558
Museums within 10 km4724
Museums within 2 km of centre3320
Share of museums within 2 km %7083
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 1 points.1
GenoaGhent
Score5049
Drinking venues within 4 km637570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6678
Nightclubs within 4 km1726
Nature & day trips. Genoa leads by 1 points.1
GenoaGhent
Score3534
Protected land share 50 km %87
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %6187
Park area within 2 km29 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 12 points.12
GenoaGhent
Score3850
Tourist attractions within 2 km2119
Park area within 2 km29 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 15 points.15
GenoaGhent
Score6146
Notable places within 2 km13055
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaGhent
Score6860
Price level global64.976.2
Daily budget€155€180
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 17 points.17
GenoaGhent
Score7356
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months31
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
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaGhent
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 56 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
3 h 10 m
€118-155
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureGenoaGhent
Official languageItalianFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m12 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaGhent
City population558,745272,657
People per km²2,3251,728
Museums within 10 km5130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre4183
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.