VacationSelector

Genoa or Santiago?

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, 1 point apart

Genoa
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Santiago
55
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

GenoaSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaSantiago
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km370
Coast distance0 km89 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 22 points.22
GenoaSantiago
Score5072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6911,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1432
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 10 points.10
GenoaSantiago
Score5545
Museums within 10 km4787
Museums within 2 km of centre3330
Share of museums within 2 km %7034
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 11 points.11
GenoaSantiago
Score5061
Drinking venues within 4 km637912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6659
Nightclubs within 4 km17112
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 17 points.17
GenoaSantiago
Score3552
Protected land share 50 km %817
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Santiago leads by 11 points.11
GenoaSantiago
Score3849
Tourist attractions within 2 km2112
Park area within 2 km29 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 13 points.13
GenoaSantiago
Score6148
Notable places within 2 km13062
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 13 points.13
GenoaSantiago
Score6881
Price level global64.946.2
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 12 points.12
GenoaSantiago
Score7385
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months38
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
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11

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: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaSantiago
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
3 h 45 m
€267-313
SCL · 14 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
10 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€223-292
2 stops
GOA · 7 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 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
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation20 m575 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaSantiago
City population558,7456,257,516
People per km²2,3257,468
Museums within 10 km5154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4164
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. 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.