VacationSelector

Genoa or San Sebastian?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

San Sebastian
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

GenoaSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 18 points.18
GenoaSan Sebastian
Score7355
Swim season months42
Beaches 10 km3710
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 5 points.5
GenoaSan Sebastian
Score5055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1426
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 16 points.16
GenoaSan Sebastian
Score5539
Museums within 10 km4717
Museums within 2 km of centre337
Share of museums within 2 km %7041
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 10 points.10
GenoaSan Sebastian
Score5040
Drinking venues within 4 km637388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6687
Nightclubs within 4 km1712
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 21 points.21
GenoaSan Sebastian
Score3556
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6152
Park area within 2 km29 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaSan Sebastian
Score3830
Tourist attractions within 2 km215
Park area within 2 km29 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 7 points.7
GenoaSan Sebastian
Score6154
Notable places within 2 km13089
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 3 points.3
GenoaSan Sebastian
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 15 points.15
GenoaSan Sebastian
Score7358
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm92 mm to 203 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
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Sebastian
9
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
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaSan Sebastian
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 75 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€223-292
2 stops
GOA · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€207-240
1 stop
GOA · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 75 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

MeasureGenoaSan Sebastian
Official languageItalianSpanish
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
Elevation20 m6 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaSan Sebastian
City population558,745189,866
People per km²2,3253,118
Museums within 10 km5114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4145
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months2 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. 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.