VacationSelector

Genoa or Quebec City?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

GenoaQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaQuebec City
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km379
Coast distance0 km47 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 5 points.5
GenoaQuebec City
Score5055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1431
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 9 points.9
GenoaQuebec City
Score5546
Museums within 10 km4726
Museums within 2 km of centre3319
Share of museums within 2 km %7073
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 19 points.19
GenoaQuebec City
Score5031
Drinking venues within 4 km637250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6678
Nightclubs within 4 km178
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 8 points.8
GenoaQuebec City
Score3543
Protected land share 50 km %87
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 12 points.12
GenoaQuebec City
Score3850
Tourist attractions within 2 km2112
Park area within 2 km29 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 18 points.18
GenoaQuebec City
Score6143
Notable places within 2 km13047
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
GenoaQuebec City
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 27 points.27
GenoaQuebec City
Score7346
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm79 mm to 123 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
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Quebec City
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). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaQuebec City
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CancunCUN
11 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
1 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Pointe-a-pitrePTP
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 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

MeasureGenoaQuebec City
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 m98 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaQuebec City
City population558,745574,482
People per km²2,3251,184
Museums within 10 km5116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4147
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.