VacationSelector

Genoa or Tromso?

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 nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

GenoaTromso
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 21 points.21
GenoaTromso
Score7352
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km3714
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Genoa leads by 26 points.26
GenoaTromso
Score5024
Restaurants within 2 km of centre69185
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1416
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 32 points.32
GenoaTromso
Score5523
Museums within 10 km4710
Museums within 2 km of centre338
Share of museums within 2 km %7080
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 43 points.43
GenoaTromso
Score507
Drinking venues within 4 km63767
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre41961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6691
Nightclubs within 4 km175
Nature & day trips. Genoa leads by 24 points.24
GenoaTromso
Score3511
Protected land share 50 km %89
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %6165
Park area within 2 km29 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Genoa leads by 24 points.24
GenoaTromso
Score3814
Tourist attractions within 2 km219
Park area within 2 km29 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 33 points.33
GenoaTromso
Score6128
Notable places within 2 km13020
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
GenoaTromso
Score6854
Price level global64.985.1
Daily budget€155€203
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 40 points.40
GenoaTromso
Score7333
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm56 mm to 128 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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromGenoaTromso
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 137 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 40 m
no fares
LIN · 119 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 40 m
no fares
LIN · 119 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureGenoaTromso
Official languageItalianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation20 m20 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaTromso
City population558,74579,943
People per km²2,32532
Museums within 10 km518
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4123
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.