VacationSelector

Genoa or Osaka?

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 beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

GenoaOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 18 points.18
GenoaOsaka
Score7355
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km3725
Coast distance0 km7 km
Water distance0 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 40 points.40
GenoaOsaka
Score5090
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6919,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1425
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 9 points.9
GenoaOsaka
Score5564
Museums within 10 km4778
Museums within 2 km of centre3322
Share of museums within 2 km %7028
Unesco sites within 50 km16
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 47 points.47
GenoaOsaka
Score5097
Drinking venues within 4 km6378,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4194,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6653
Nightclubs within 4 km1797
Nature & day trips. Genoa leads by 7 points.7
GenoaOsaka
Score3528
Protected land share 50 km %81
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %6184
Park area within 2 km29 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 34 points.34
GenoaOsaka
Score3872
Tourist attractions within 2 km2147
Park area within 2 km29 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 13 points.13
GenoaOsaka
Score6148
Notable places within 2 km13063
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
GenoaOsaka
Score6870
Price level global64.962.4
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 10 points.10
GenoaOsaka
Score7363
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm47 mm to 185 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
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
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). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaOsaka
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 38 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

MeasureGenoaOsaka
Official languageItalianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation20 m20 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaOsaka
City population558,7452,751,862
People per km²2,32512,340
Museums within 10 km5143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Distinct cuisines in the centre4197
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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.