VacationSelector

Genoa or Heidelberg?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

GenoaHeidelberg
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaHeidelberg
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km376
Coast distance0 km406 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Genoa leads by 3 points.3
GenoaHeidelberg
Score5047
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1426
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 4 points.4
GenoaHeidelberg
Score5559
Museums within 10 km4754
Museums within 2 km of centre3323
Share of museums within 2 km %7043
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 23 points.23
GenoaHeidelberg
Score5027
Drinking venues within 4 km637201
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6684
Nightclubs within 4 km178
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 39 points.39
GenoaHeidelberg
Score3574
Protected land share 50 km %852
Landscape blanket share 50 km %022
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Heidelberg leads by 5 points.5
GenoaHeidelberg
Score3843
Tourist attractions within 2 km2129
Park area within 2 km29 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
GenoaHeidelberg
Score6136
Notable places within 2 km13031
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaHeidelberg
Score6860
Price level global64.975.9
Daily budget€155€163
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 12 points.12
GenoaHeidelberg
Score7361
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C5.2 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm45 mm to 80 mm
Dry months30
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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
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). Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaHeidelberg
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
2 h 50 m
€226-277
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
2 h 50 m
€178-223
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 69 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
9 h 50 m
€683-756
FRA · 69 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

MeasureGenoaHeidelberg
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 m114 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaHeidelberg
City population558,745162,960
People per km²2,3251,496
Museums within 10 km5117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre4145
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.