VacationSelector

Genoa or Hamburg?

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.

Hamburg
53
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.

GenoaHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaHamburg
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km3716
Coast distance0 km22 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 23 points.23
GenoaHamburg
Score5073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6911,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1438
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 5 points.5
GenoaHamburg
Score5560
Museums within 10 km4794
Museums within 2 km of centre3350
Share of museums within 2 km %7053
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 18 points.18
GenoaHamburg
Score5068
Drinking venues within 4 km6371,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6662
Nightclubs within 4 km17119
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 5 points.5
GenoaHamburg
Score3540
Protected land share 50 km %814
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %6199
Park area within 2 km29 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 22 points.22
GenoaHamburg
Score3860
Tourist attractions within 2 km2140
Park area within 2 km29 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 2 points.2
GenoaHamburg
Score6159
Notable places within 2 km130118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaHamburg
Score6860
Price level global64.975.9
Daily budget€155€163
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 18 points.18
GenoaHamburg
Score7355
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm39 mm to 82 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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaHamburg
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€207-240
1 stop
GOA · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
2 h 45 m
€193
HAM · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
HAM · 9 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

MeasureGenoaHamburg
Official languageItalianGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m6 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaHamburg
City population558,7451,910,160
People per km²2,3252,530
Museums within 10 km5177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4183
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. 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.