VacationSelector

Genoa or Malaga?

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

Your match

Genoa
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
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.

GenoaMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 7 points.7
GenoaMalaga
Score7366
Swim season months43
Beaches 10 km3721
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 19 points.19
GenoaMalaga
Score5069
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6911,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1434
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 2 points.2
GenoaMalaga
Score5553
Museums within 10 km4740
Museums within 2 km of centre3335
Share of museums within 2 km %7088
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 4 points.4
GenoaMalaga
Score5054
Drinking venues within 4 km637715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6668
Nightclubs within 4 km1745
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 8 points.8
GenoaMalaga
Score3543
Protected land share 50 km %87
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6163
Park area within 2 km29 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 15 points.15
GenoaMalaga
Score3853
Tourist attractions within 2 km2133
Park area within 2 km29 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 24 points.24
GenoaMalaga
Score6137
Notable places within 2 km13033
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 3 points.3
GenoaMalaga
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 9 points.9
GenoaMalaga
Score7382
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months35
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 137 km
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€223-292
2 stops
GOA · 7 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureGenoaMalaga
Official languageItalianSpanish
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 m18 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaMalaga
City population558,745599,063
People per km²2,3251,517
Museums within 10 km5132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4165
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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.