VacationSelector

Genoa or Rio de Janeiro?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

GenoaRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 27 points.27
GenoaRio de Janeiro
Score73100
Swim season months412
Beaches 10 km3761
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Rio de Janeiro leads by 4 points.4
GenoaRio de Janeiro
Score5054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1416
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 14 points.14
GenoaRio de Janeiro
Score5569
Museums within 10 km47110
Museums within 2 km of centre3351
Share of museums within 2 km %7046
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Rio de Janeiro leads by 7 points.7
GenoaRio de Janeiro
Score5057
Drinking venues within 4 km637818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6662
Nightclubs within 4 km1750
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 27 points.27
GenoaRio de Janeiro
Score3562
Protected land share 50 km %821
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %6157
Park area within 2 km29 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 21 points.21
GenoaRio de Janeiro
Score3859
Tourist attractions within 2 km2130
Park area within 2 km29 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 5 points.5
GenoaRio de Janeiro
Score6156
Notable places within 2 km13098
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 13 points.13
GenoaRio de Janeiro
Score6881
Price level global64.946.1
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 12 points.12
GenoaRio de Janeiro
Score7385
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm42 mm to 232 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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Rio de Janeiro
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). Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaRio de Janeiro
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
1 h 5 m
€113-134
GIG · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€223-292
2 stops
GOA · 7 km
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureGenoaRio de Janeiro
Official languageItalianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation20 m31 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaRio de Janeiro
City population558,7456,211,223
People per km²2,3254,930
Museums within 10 km5170
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4127
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.