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The fountain in Piazza De Ferrari, Genoa
GenoaThe fountain in Piazza De Ferrari
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Genoa by Faber1893, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Genoa or Victoria Falls?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Genoa for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Genoa’s own page.

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Genoa 62, Victoria Falls 7: Genoa leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Genoa 72, Victoria Falls 24: Genoa leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Genoa 76, Victoria Falls 12: Genoa leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Genoa 42, Victoria Falls 8: Genoa leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Genoa 78, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Genoa 83, Victoria Falls 22: Genoa leads by 61 points.
Good for families. Genoa 64, Victoria Falls 38: Genoa leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Genoa 66, Victoria Falls 45: Genoa leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Genoa 48, Victoria Falls 18: Genoa leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Genoa 55, Victoria Falls 32: Genoa leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Genoa 52, Victoria Falls 10: Genoa leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Genoa 35, Victoria Falls 34: Genoa leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Genoa and Victoria Falls.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Genoa
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Genoa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Genoa has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Genoa's sunshine is measured 80 km from the centre, at Capo Mele.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGenoaVictoria Falls
Official languageItalianEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112999
Elevation20 m961 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaVictoria Falls
City population558,74533,060
People per km²2,325-
Museums within 10 km512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.