VacationSelector

Genoa or Munich?

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

Munich
57
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Genoa if the sea is the point of the trip: 37 beaches within reach, warm swimming through late summer, and a warmer, drier year than Munich can offer.

Choose Munich if you are travelling with children or plan to eat out every night: far more attractions and park space near the centre, 2 theme parks within reach, and a much wider range of kitchens than Genoa.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GenoaMunich
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaMunich
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km376
Coast distance0 km579 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Munich leads by 23 points.23
GenoaMunich
Score5073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6911,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1435
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 6 points.6
GenoaMunich
Score5561
Museums within 10 km4774
Museums within 2 km of centre3348
Share of museums within 2 km %7065
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Munich leads by 17 points.17
GenoaMunich
Score5067
Drinking venues within 4 km6371,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6657
Nightclubs within 4 km17103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 13 points.13
GenoaMunich
Score3548
Protected land share 50 km %817
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 41 points.41
GenoaMunich
Score3879
Tourist attractions within 2 km2180
Park area within 2 km29 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 7 points.7
GenoaMunich
Score6168
Notable places within 2 km130196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaMunich
Score6860
Price level global64.975.9
Daily budget€155€163
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 17 points.17
GenoaMunich
Score7356
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm46 mm to 121 mm
Dry months30
0255075100

Where they differ

Genoa has the coast: 37 beaches nearby where Munich has 6, and a sea that reaches 25°C by August. It also runs warmer across the year, 12-28°C against 4-25°C, with a genuinely dry summer where Munich has none.

Munich has about three times as many tourist attractions near the centre, far more park space, and 2 theme parks within reach where Genoa has none. It also has roughly twice as many restaurants near the centre, across a much wider range of kitchens.

Where they are alike

Museums and heritage are the closest call. Munich has the larger collection of museums, but both cities give you indoor days worth spending, and each has 1 UNESCO-listed place within day-trip reach.

The two are also close on how compact they are and on price level. In both, the notable places cluster around the centre, so a day on foot works either way, and the national daily budgets behind them, €155 and €163, sit close together.

Which traveller are you?

Families with young children: Munich. About three times as many tourist attractions near the centre, far more park space within walking reach, and 2 theme parks within day-trip distance, none of which Genoa can match.

Swimmers and beach days: Genoa, without argument. 37 beaches nearby against Munich's 6, and a sea that reaches 25°C in August, while Munich has no warm-water swimming at all.

Eating and going out: Munich has considerably more restaurants and drinking places, a much wider choice of kitchens and many more nightclubs. Genoa's smaller night-time offering is concentrated near the centre and easier to walk between.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures are national price levels for restaurants and hotels, not measurements of Genoa or Munich. A large or heavily visited city can sit well above its own country's average, and that gap can be wider than the difference between the two national figures, so they say nothing about which city costs more.

Genoa's 37 nearby beaches and its warmest sea coincide with peak holiday season, so the count says nothing about how crowded any of them will be. Munich's warmest months are also the ones carrying over 100mm of rain: a warm month there is not a dry one.

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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Genoa's window is June to September: highs of 25-28°C, sea at 22-25°C and very little rain, 12mm at the height of summer. Autumn turns wet, over 100mm a month, though the sea stays swimmable into October.

Munich's warmest months, at 23-25°C, are also its wettest, with rain heaviest in early summer; take a jacket and plan indoor time. September is the steadier compromise, 20°C, drier than the summer it follows, and still warm enough for parks and terraces.

Getting there

Flying fromGenoaMunich
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureGenoaMunich
Official languageItalianGerman
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 m519 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaMunich
City population558,7451,510,378
People per km²2,3254,861
Museums within 10 km5174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4189
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. 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.