VacationSelector

Genoa or Montreal?

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.

Montreal
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.

GenoaMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaMontreal
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km377
Coast distance0 km276 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 24 points.24
GenoaMontreal
Score5074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6911,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1449
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 18 points.18
GenoaMontreal
Score5537
Museums within 10 km4739
Museums within 2 km of centre3319
Share of museums within 2 km %7049
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 12 points.12
GenoaMontreal
Score5062
Drinking venues within 4 km6371,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6649
Nightclubs within 4 km1774
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 1 points.1
GenoaMontreal
Score3536
Protected land share 50 km %82
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 12 points.12
GenoaMontreal
Score3850
Tourist attractions within 2 km2111
Park area within 2 km29 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 5 points.5
GenoaMontreal
Score6156
Notable places within 2 km13098
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
GenoaMontreal
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 23 points.23
GenoaMontreal
Score7350
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm69 mm to 121 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
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaMontreal
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 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

MeasureGenoaMontreal
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m31 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaMontreal
City population558,7451,895,211
People per km²2,3253,806
Museums within 10 km5137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4197
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.