VacationSelector

Genoa or Santiago de Compostela?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money 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.

GenoaSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaSantiago de Compostela
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km370
Coast distance0 km26 km
Water distance0 km26 km
Places to eat. Genoa leads by 2 points.2
GenoaSantiago de Compostela
Score5048
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1423
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 11 points.11
GenoaSantiago de Compostela
Score5544
Museums within 10 km4716
Museums within 2 km of centre3314
Share of museums within 2 km %7088
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
GenoaSantiago de Compostela
Score5036
Drinking venues within 4 km637306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6688
Nightclubs within 4 km1713
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 11 points.11
GenoaSantiago de Compostela
Score3546
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6192
Park area within 2 km29 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Genoa leads by 11 points.11
GenoaSantiago de Compostela
Score3827
Tourist attractions within 2 km212
Park area within 2 km29 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 19 points.19
GenoaSantiago de Compostela
Score6142
Notable places within 2 km13044
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 3 points.3
GenoaSantiago de Compostela
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 11 points.11
GenoaSantiago de Compostela
Score7362
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm41 mm to 223 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
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Santiago de Compostela
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
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
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). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromGenoaSantiago de Compostela
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 137 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
2 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 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

MeasureGenoaSantiago de Compostela
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 m260 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaSantiago de Compostela
City population558,745100,965
People per km²2,325459
Museums within 10 km516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4138
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.