VacationSelector

Genoa or Rotterdam?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Genoa
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
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.

GenoaRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 36 points.36
GenoaRotterdam
Score7337
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km3722
Coast distance0 km24 km
Water distance0 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 22 points.22
GenoaRotterdam
Score5072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1446
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 5 points.5
GenoaRotterdam
Score5560
Museums within 10 km4741
Museums within 2 km of centre3320
Share of museums within 2 km %7049
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 1 points.1
GenoaRotterdam
Score5049
Drinking venues within 4 km637542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6670
Nightclubs within 4 km1740
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 7 points.7
GenoaRotterdam
Score3542
Protected land share 50 km %810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6179
Park area within 2 km29 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 24 points.24
GenoaRotterdam
Score3862
Tourist attractions within 2 km2127
Park area within 2 km29 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 10 points.10
GenoaRotterdam
Score6151
Notable places within 2 km13074
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 10 points.10
GenoaRotterdam
Score6858
Price level global64.979.2
Daily budget€155€181
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 17 points.17
GenoaRotterdam
Score7356
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaRotterdam
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 137 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 20 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
3 h 15 m
€140-185
RTM · 5 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureGenoaRotterdam
Official languageItalianDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation20 m10 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaRotterdam
City population558,745664,311
People per km²2,3252,080
Museums within 10 km5140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre4177
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.