VacationSelector

Genoa or Strasbourg?

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.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Genoa if the sea matters: 37 beaches within reach and four months warm enough to swim, plus warmer winters and more museums and bars in a walkable centre.

Choose Strasbourg if you would rather walk than swim: protected countryside and parks close to the city, a theme park within reach, and a wider spread of kitchens.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GenoaStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaStrasbourg
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km379
Coast distance0 km398 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 17 points.17
GenoaStrasbourg
Score5067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1436
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
GenoaStrasbourg
Score5541
Museums within 10 km4723
Museums within 2 km of centre3314
Share of museums within 2 km %7061
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
GenoaStrasbourg
Score5036
Drinking venues within 4 km637305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6687
Nightclubs within 4 km1717
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 19 points.19
GenoaStrasbourg
Score3554
Protected land share 50 km %837
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Genoa and Strasbourg are level on 38.
GenoaStrasbourg
Score3838
Tourist attractions within 2 km219
Park area within 2 km29 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 3 points.3
GenoaStrasbourg
Score6158
Notable places within 2 km130109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 6 points.6
GenoaStrasbourg
Score6862
Price level global64.973.7
Daily budget€155€160
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 10 points.10
GenoaStrasbourg
Score7363
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months33
0255075100

Where they differ

Genoa is the swimming trip: 37 beaches nearby against Strasbourg's 9, and four months when the sea is 21°C or warmer, which Strasbourg has none of. It also has about twice as many museums and about twice as many places to drink, most of them near the centre.

Strasbourg turns the comparison around inland. 37% of the land around it is protected against 8% around Genoa, and it has roughly twice as much park space near the centre. The range of kitchens is wider too.

Where they are alike

Families are served about equally, by different means. Genoa has roughly twice as many tourist attractions near the centre; Strasbourg has about twice as much park space and 1 theme park within reach, where Genoa has none.

Both are compact: the notable places sit within walking distance of the centre in each, Genoa with somewhat more of them. The national price levels are close too, €155 in Italy against €160 in France.

Which traveller are you?

Anyone whose holiday is built around swimming should go to Genoa: 37 beaches within reach and a sea at 21°C or more for four months, against a city with no swimming season at all.

Walkers and day-trippers do better from Strasbourg, with 37% of the surrounding land protected and generous park space close to the centre, against 8% protected around Genoa and a tighter urban setting.

For evenings out, Genoa has about twice as many drinking places, most near the centre; Strasbourg counters with a wider range of kitchens rather than more restaurants. Choose by whether you want variety at dinner or a longer night.

What the numbers don't tell you

Genoa's beach advantage is seasonal. The sea is 21°C or warmer only in high summer; outside that window it sits at 13-18°C, so a spring or autumn trip gets the coast as scenery rather than swimming. Strasbourg's warm season has its own catch: its wettest month, 77mm, falls in May, just as the weather turns usable.

The daily budget figures are single national estimates for Italy and France, not measurements of either city. A heavily visited city can sit well away from its own country average, by more than the gap between the two national figures, so they should not decide this.

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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A
S
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Genoa peaks from June to August, highs 25-28°C, sea 22-25°C and July down at 12mm. September still swims at 23°C, but the rain turns: 72mm, then 101-122mm across October and November, the wettest stretch in either city.

Strasbourg is best from June to September, 22-26°C, though summer carries 55-72mm a month and May is wetter still at 77mm. Its driest months, 34-42mm from January to April, are also its coldest, at 5-17°C.

Getting there

Flying fromGenoaStrasbourg
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BSL · 110 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 137 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureGenoaStrasbourg
Official languageItalianFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m132 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaStrasbourg
City population558,745293,771
People per km²2,3253,752
Museums within 10 km5121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4187
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.