VacationSelector

Genoa or Krakow?

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, 2 points apart

Genoa
56
match

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

Krakow
58
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

GenoaKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaKrakow
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km379
Coast distance0 km456 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 18 points.18
GenoaKrakow
Score5068
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6911,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1430
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 20 points.20
GenoaKrakow
Score5575
Museums within 10 km4784
Museums within 2 km of centre3369
Share of museums within 2 km %7082
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 7 points.7
GenoaKrakow
Score5057
Drinking venues within 4 km637836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6683
Nightclubs within 4 km1754
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 11 points.11
GenoaKrakow
Score3546
Protected land share 50 km %814
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 36 points.36
GenoaKrakow
Score3874
Tourist attractions within 2 km2177
Park area within 2 km29 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 7 points.7
GenoaKrakow
Score6168
Notable places within 2 km130198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 11 points.11
GenoaKrakow
Score6879
Price level global64.949
Daily budget€155€133
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 15 points.15
GenoaKrakow
Score7358
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months34
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
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 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

MeasureGenoaKrakow
Official languageItalianPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m219 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaKrakow
City population558,745804,237
People per km²2,3252,459
Museums within 10 km51114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre4168
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.