VacationSelector

Genoa or Stuttgart?

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.

Stuttgart
51
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 and you want a compact centre you can cover on foot: 37 beaches nearby, four months warm enough to swim, and most of the notable places within walking distance.

Choose Stuttgart if you would rather spend the days outside the city, in protected countryside and parkland, with a wider range of kitchens to eat in and theme parks for children.

Scoreboard

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

GenoaStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaStuttgart
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km373
Coast distance0 km476 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Stuttgart leads by 9 points.9
GenoaStuttgart
Score5059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1429
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 1 points.1
GenoaStuttgart
Score5556
Museums within 10 km4765
Museums within 2 km of centre3321
Share of museums within 2 km %7032
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 1 points.1
GenoaStuttgart
Score5049
Drinking venues within 4 km637524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6671
Nightclubs within 4 km1753
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 45 points.45
GenoaStuttgart
Score3580
Protected land share 50 km %851
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Stuttgart leads by 7 points.7
GenoaStuttgart
Score3845
Tourist attractions within 2 km2111
Park area within 2 km29 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 17 points.17
GenoaStuttgart
Score6144
Notable places within 2 km13050
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaStuttgart
Score6860
Price level global64.975.9
Daily budget€155€163
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 10 points.10
GenoaStuttgart
Score7363
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months33
0255075100

Where they differ

Genoa is the one with a coast: 37 beaches nearby against Stuttgart's 3, and four months when the sea reaches 21°C or more, which Stuttgart never does. It also packs about three times as many notable places into walking distance of the centre.

Stuttgart is the one for getting out: 51% of the land around it is protected against 8% around Genoa, it has about three times as much park space near the centre, and 2 theme parks within reach where Genoa has none.

Where they are alike

Nightlife lands in much the same place. Genoa has somewhat more places to drink, Stuttgart about three times as many nightclubs, and in both cities they sit mostly near the centre.

Museums are close too: Stuttgart has slightly more, Genoa's are grouped more tightly around the centre, and Stuttgart counts 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Genoa's 1. Both are middling for families, and the national price estimates behind them sit close together.

Which traveller are you?

Anyone whose trip is built around swimming should take Genoa. It has 37 beaches nearby where Stuttgart has 3, and four months when the sea is at 21°C or more.

Walkers and day-trippers are better served by Stuttgart, where 51% of the surrounding land is protected and park space near the centre is roughly three times Genoa's, so green space starts before the countryside does.

Families face a trade-off: Stuttgart has 2 theme parks within reach and far more parkland, while Genoa concentrates roughly twice as many attractions near the centre, which suits young children and short walks.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €155 for Italy and €163 for Germany, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels, not measurements of Genoa or Stuttgart. A large or heavily visited city can sit well away from its own country's average, by more than the gap between these two, so they cannot tell you which trip costs more.

Genoa's coastal strength is narrow in time: the sea is at 21°C or more for four months, and those are the same months everyone else travels in. Stuttgart's warmest months are also its wettest, so outdoor plans there compete with rain that Genoa's summer does not have.

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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stuttgart
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
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Genoa peaks in high summer, with highs of 27-28°C, the sea at 24-25°C and rain falling to 12mm in July. Late spring and early September still work for the coast. Autumn is the stretch to avoid, with 122mm in November.

Stuttgart is better from May to September, with highs of 21-26°C. Its warmest weeks are also its wettest, near 79mm, so the drier shoulder is easier for time outdoors. Winter highs of 6°C give little reason to go.

Getting there

Flying fromGenoaStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 146 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
3 h 15 m
€194-322
1 stop
STR · 10 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
1 h 20 m
€174-248
STR · 10 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 146 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

MeasureGenoaStuttgart
Official languageItalianGerman
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 m245 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaStuttgart
City population558,745633,484
People per km²2,3253,054
Museums within 10 km5142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4159
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.