VacationSelector

Genoa or New Orleans?

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 value for money with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
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.

GenoaNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 34 points.34
GenoaNew Orleans
Score7339
Swim season months47
Beaches 10 km373
Coast distance0 km21 km
Water distance0 km17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 11 points.11
GenoaNew Orleans
Score5061
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1425
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 10 points.10
GenoaNew Orleans
Score5545
Museums within 10 km4742
Museums within 2 km of centre3330
Share of museums within 2 km %7071
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 4 points.4
GenoaNew Orleans
Score5054
Drinking venues within 4 km637704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6670
Nightclubs within 4 km1741
Nature & day trips. Genoa leads by 10 points.10
GenoaNew Orleans
Score3525
Protected land share 50 km %84
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6189
Park area within 2 km29 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 8 points.8
GenoaNew Orleans
Score3846
Tourist attractions within 2 km2122
Park area within 2 km29 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 21 points.21
GenoaNew Orleans
Score6140
Notable places within 2 km13040
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
GenoaNew Orleans
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 5 points.5
GenoaNew Orleans
Score7368
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm94 mm to 194 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
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
New Orleans
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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromGenoaNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
CancunCUN
11 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
10 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 55 m
€178-367
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 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

MeasureGenoaNew Orleans
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m-2 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaNew Orleans
City population558,745383,997
People per km²2,325423
Museums within 10 km5116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4139
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months7 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.