Genoa or Verona?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.
Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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 you want the coast: dozens of beaches within reach, a sea warm enough to swim from June to September, and the denser walkable centre with more bars and clubs.
Choose Verona if you are travelling with children: far more attractions and park space near the centre, four theme parks within reach, and warmer days across the year, though no swimming.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
| Genoa | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 73 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 4 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 37 | 2 |
| Coast distance | 0 km | 104 km |
| Water distance | 0 km | — |
Places to eat. Genoa leads by 7 points.7
| Genoa | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 50 | 43 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 691 | 477 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 14 | 13 |
Museums & heritage. Verona leads by 1 points.1
| Genoa | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 55 | 56 |
| Museums within 10 km | 47 | 20 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 33 | 19 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 70 | 95 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 1 | 5 |
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 10 points.10
| Genoa | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 50 | 40 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 637 | 416 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 419 | 269 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 66 | 65 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 17 | 9 |
Nature & day trips. Verona leads by 1 points.1
| Genoa | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 35 | 36 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 8 | 9 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 61 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 29 hectares | 59 hectares |
Good for families. Verona leads by 31 points.31
| Genoa | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 38 | 69 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 21 | 62 |
| Park area within 2 km | 29 hectares | 59 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 0 | 4 |
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
| Genoa | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 61 | 53 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 130 | 82 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Genoa and Verona are level on 68.
| Genoa | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 68 | 68 |
| Price level global | 64.9 | 64.9 |
| Daily budget | €155 | €155 |
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
| Genoa | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 73 | 65 |
| Monthly daytime high | 11.7 °C to 27.9 °C | 6.8 °C to 30.3 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 12 mm to 122 mm | 38 mm to 85 mm |
| Dry months | 3 | 1 |
Where they differ
Genoa is the coastal choice. It has beaches in quantity and four months of sea at 21°C or more, where Verona has next to nothing to swim in. Its centre is the denser one to walk, with more notable buildings close together and a considerably wider choice of bars and clubs.
Verona suits a trip with children better, with far more attractions near the centre and much more park space. Days run warmer across the year too, up to 30°C in summer, though winter highs fall near 7°C.
Where they are alike
The countryside around each is protected to a similar degree, 8% of the land around Genoa and 9% around Verona, and in neither case are day trips the main reason to come.
Both carry heritage, in different shapes: Genoa has about twice as many museums, while Verona has 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Genoa's 1. Eating out is comparable as well, with a similar range of kitchens in each.
Which traveller are you?
Families with young children should take Verona. It has roughly three times as many tourist attractions near the centre, twice as much park space, and 4 theme parks within reach where Genoa has none.
Anyone whose holiday centres on swimming wants Genoa: 37 beaches nearby and sea reaching 25°C in August, against a Verona that offers essentially no swimming at all.
For a city break built on evenings and walking, Genoa again, with about twice as many bars and clubs and a denser core. Verona answers with 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach.
What the numbers don't tell you
The value comparison between these two carries no information: it is a national price level, identical for both by construction, so it says nothing about which city costs more. The €155 daily budget is that same national estimate rather than a measurement of either place.
Genoa's coastal strength is a summer strength. The sea is only swimmable for part of the year, and the wettest months, above 100mm, follow straight after it. Verona's warmest days arrive when its own monthly rating is falling: heat, more rain than spring, and just 2 beaches to reach.
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).
Genoa peaks in high summer, with highs of 27-28°C in July and August, the driest weeks of the year at 12-20mm, and the sea at its warmest. Autumn turns heavy, with 122mm in November.
Verona is better in late spring, when May and June reach 24-28°C ahead of the 30°C peak of high summer. Rain is more evenly spread across the year here, and early autumn is its wettest warm spell. Winter is cold, with highs near 7°C.
Getting there
| Flying from | Genoa | Verona |
|---|---|---|
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 8 h 15 m €542-635 1 stop MXP · 137 km | 8 h 30 m €637-650 VCE · 106 km |
| IstanbulIST, SAW | 2 h 40 m €140-309 MXP · 137 km | 2 h 25 m €172-262 1 stop VRN · 10 km |
| ViennaVIE | 1 h 25 m €65-131 MXP · 137 km | 1 h 10 m €65-121 VCE · 106 km |
| LisbonLIS | 2 h 35 m €78-142 MXP · 137 km | 2 h 55 m €122-127 VCE · 106 km |
| MadridMAD | 2 h 0 m €63-91 MXP · 137 km | 2 h 10 m no fares VRN · 10 km |
| DubaiDXB, DWC | 6 h 10 m €375-563 MXP · 137 km | 5 h 55 m €366-421 2 stops VCE · 106 km |
| CataniaCTA | 1 h 45 m €80-177 1 stop GOA · 7 km | 1 h 45 m €40-90 VRN · 10 km |
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 55 m no fares GOA · 7 km | 1 h 55 m no fares VRN · 10 km |
| BeijingPEK, PKX | 10 h 10 m €710-815 1 stop MXP · 137 km | 9 h 55 m no fares VCE · 106 km |
| CancunCUN | 11 h 0 m no fares MXP · 137 km | 11 h 10 m no fares VRN · 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 2026-08 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
| Measure | Genoa | Verona |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Italian | Italian |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CFL230 V, 50 Hz | CFL230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 20 m | 59 m |
| Main airport | Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations | Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 13 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Genoa | Verona |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 558,745 | 255,588 |
| People per km² | 2,325 | 1,285 |
| Museums within 10 km | 51 | 18 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 1 | 5 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 41 | 35 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | 4 months | – |
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