VacationSelector

Genoa or Manchester?

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.

Manchester
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

GenoaManchester
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 45 points.45
GenoaManchester
Score7328
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km3710
Coast distance0 km27 km
Water distance0 km27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 18 points.18
GenoaManchester
Score5068
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1435
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 13 points.13
GenoaManchester
Score5542
Museums within 10 km4723
Museums within 2 km of centre3311
Share of museums within 2 km %7048
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 12 points.12
GenoaManchester
Score5062
Drinking venues within 4 km6371,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6677
Nightclubs within 4 km1782
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 1 points.1
GenoaManchester
Score3536
Protected land share 50 km %817
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %6199
Park area within 2 km29 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Genoa leads by 6 points.6
GenoaManchester
Score3832
Tourist attractions within 2 km215
Park area within 2 km29 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 13 points.13
GenoaManchester
Score6148
Notable places within 2 km13061
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
GenoaManchester
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 19 points.19
GenoaManchester
Score7354
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Manchester
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
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromGenoaManchester
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 137 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 137 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureGenoaManchester
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation20 m38 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaManchester
City population558,745547,627
People per km²2,3254,737
Museums within 10 km5128
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4163
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. 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.