VacationSelector

Genoa or Portland?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

GenoaPortland
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaPortland
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km3727
Coast distance0 km69 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 24 points.24
GenoaPortland
Score5074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6911,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1444
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 20 points.20
GenoaPortland
Score5535
Museums within 10 km4723
Museums within 2 km of centre3315
Share of museums within 2 km %7065
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Portland leads by 8 points.8
GenoaPortland
Score5058
Drinking venues within 4 km637942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6655
Nightclubs within 4 km1732
Nature & day trips. Genoa and Portland are level on 35.
GenoaPortland
Score3535
Protected land share 50 km %813
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Genoa leads by 4 points.4
GenoaPortland
Score3834
Tourist attractions within 2 km218
Park area within 2 km29 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 26 points.26
GenoaPortland
Score6135
Notable places within 2 km13029
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
GenoaPortland
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaPortland
Score7365
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months33
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
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Portland
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
Portland
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). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaPortland
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
10 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€223-292
2 stops
GOA · 7 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
4 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 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

MeasureGenoaPortland
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m152 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaPortland
City population558,745652,503
People per km²2,3251,736
Museums within 10 km5117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4182
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.