VacationSelector

Genoa or Ottawa?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Ottawa
43
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.

GenoaOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaOttawa
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km379
Coast distance0 km423 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 14 points.14
GenoaOttawa
Score5064
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1434
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 23 points.23
GenoaOttawa
Score5532
Museums within 10 km4715
Museums within 2 km of centre338
Share of museums within 2 km %7053
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 6 points.6
GenoaOttawa
Score5044
Drinking venues within 4 km637432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6670
Nightclubs within 4 km1735
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 6 points.6
GenoaOttawa
Score3541
Protected land share 50 km %88
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaOttawa
Score3846
Tourist attractions within 2 km2111
Park area within 2 km29 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 11 points.11
GenoaOttawa
Score6150
Notable places within 2 km13071
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
GenoaOttawa
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 20 points.20
GenoaOttawa
Score7353
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Ottawa
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ottawa
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
Ottawa
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). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaOttawa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
CancunCUN
11 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
10 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
Montego BayMBJ
10 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
YOW · 12 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

MeasureGenoaOttawa
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 m70 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaOttawa
City population558,7451,017,449
People per km²2,325366
Museums within 10 km5120
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4162
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.