VacationSelector

Genoa or Philadelphia?

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.

Philadelphia
51
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.

GenoaPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaPhiladelphia
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km371
Coast distance0 km13 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 27 points.27
GenoaPhiladelphia
Score5077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6911,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1435
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 5 points.5
GenoaPhiladelphia
Score5560
Museums within 10 km4789
Museums within 2 km of centre3348
Share of museums within 2 km %7054
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 9 points.9
GenoaPhiladelphia
Score5059
Drinking venues within 4 km637930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6662
Nightclubs within 4 km1741
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 14 points.14
GenoaPhiladelphia
Score3549
Protected land share 50 km %814
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6189
Park area within 2 km29 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 15 points.15
GenoaPhiladelphia
Score3853
Tourist attractions within 2 km2116
Park area within 2 km29 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 7 points.7
GenoaPhiladelphia
Score6154
Notable places within 2 km13088
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
GenoaPhiladelphia
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 13 points.13
GenoaPhiladelphia
Score7360
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaPhiladelphia
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 140 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

MeasureGenoaPhiladelphia
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m12 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaPhiladelphia
City population558,7451,603,797
People per km²2,3254,339
Museums within 10 km5154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4175
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.