VacationSelector

Genoa or Helsinki?

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

Genoa
56
match

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

Helsinki
57
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.

GenoaHelsinki
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 13 points.13
GenoaHelsinki
Score7360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km37157
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 21 points.21
GenoaHelsinki
Score5071
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6911,005
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1438
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 6 points.6
GenoaHelsinki
Score5549
Museums within 10 km4757
Museums within 2 km of centre3323
Share of museums within 2 km %7040
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 6 points.6
GenoaHelsinki
Score5056
Drinking venues within 4 km637807
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419607
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6675
Nightclubs within 4 km1740
Nature & day trips. Helsinki leads by 7 points.7
GenoaHelsinki
Score3542
Protected land share 50 km %83
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6153
Park area within 2 km29 hectares185 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 20 points.20
GenoaHelsinki
Score3858
Tourist attractions within 2 km2120
Park area within 2 km29 hectares185 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 12 points.12
GenoaHelsinki
Score6173
Notable places within 2 km130257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 12 points.12
GenoaHelsinki
Score6856
Price level global64.981.6
Daily budget€155€184
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
GenoaHelsinki
Score7348
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm32 mm to 84 mm
Dry months33
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
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). Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromGenoaHelsinki
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
3 h 10 m
€206-225
HEL · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 40 m
no fares
LIN · 119 km
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 137 km
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 137 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 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

MeasureGenoaHelsinki
Official languageItalianFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m17 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaHelsinki
City population558,745694,392
People per km²2,3253,239
Museums within 10 km5174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4178
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. 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.