VacationSelector

Genoa or Porto?

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.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families 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.

GenoaPorto
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 13 points.13
GenoaPorto
Score7360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km3752
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 18 points.18
GenoaPorto
Score5068
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6911,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1427
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 16 points.16
GenoaPorto
Score5571
Museums within 10 km47101
Museums within 2 km of centre3357
Share of museums within 2 km %7056
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Porto leads by 8 points.8
GenoaPorto
Score5058
Drinking venues within 4 km637900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6663
Nightclubs within 4 km1738
Nature & day trips. Genoa leads by 2 points.2
GenoaPorto
Score3533
Protected land share 50 km %87
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6161
Park area within 2 km29 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 27 points.27
GenoaPorto
Score3865
Tourist attractions within 2 km21122
Park area within 2 km29 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 7 points.7
GenoaPorto
Score6154
Notable places within 2 km13085
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 6 points.6
GenoaPorto
Score6874
Price level global64.955.9
Daily budget€155€109
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 2 points.2
GenoaPorto
Score7371
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm22 mm to 181 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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaPorto
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
4 h 20 m
€235-292
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
55 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureGenoaPorto
Official languageItalianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m104 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaPorto
City population558,745231,800
People per km²2,3255,599
Museums within 10 km5142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4170
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.