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The fountain in Piazza De Ferrari, Genoa
GenoaThe fountain in Piazza De Ferrari
The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket

Photos: Genoa by Faber1893, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0.

Genoa or Phuket?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Genoa for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Genoa’s own page.

Choose Phuket for

  • wellness
  • nightlife
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Phuket’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Genoa 62, Phuket 90: Phuket leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Genoa 72, Phuket 66: Genoa leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Genoa 76, Phuket 35: Genoa leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Genoa 42, Phuket 72: Phuket leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Genoa 78, Phuket 80: Phuket leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Genoa 83, Phuket 45: Genoa leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Genoa 64, Phuket 65: Phuket leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Genoa 66, Phuket 22: Genoa leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Genoa 48, Phuket 42: Genoa leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Genoa 55, Phuket 68: Phuket leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Genoa 52, Phuket 20: Genoa leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Genoa 35, Phuket 82: Phuket leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Genoa and Phuket.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Genoa
Best match
61match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Phuket
57match

Wins on wellness and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Genoa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Genoa has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Genoa's sunshine is measured 80 km from the centre, at Capo Mele.

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGenoaPhuket
Official languageItalianThai
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation20 m19 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaPhuket
City population558,74577,610
People per km²2,3256,468
Museums within 10 km512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.