VacationSelector

Genoa or Washington DC?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Washington DC
52
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

GenoaWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 55 points.55
GenoaWashington DC
Score7318
Swim season months43
Beaches 10 km371
Coast distance0 km34 km
Water distance0 km34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 27 points.27
GenoaWashington DC
Score5077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6911,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1436
Museums & heritage. Genoa and Washington DC are level on 55.
GenoaWashington DC
Score5555
Museums within 10 km4783
Museums within 2 km of centre3355
Share of museums within 2 km %7066
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 11 points.11
GenoaWashington DC
Score5061
Drinking venues within 4 km6371,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6658
Nightclubs within 4 km1754
Nature & day trips. Washington DC leads by 7 points.7
GenoaWashington DC
Score3542
Protected land share 50 km %810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %6194
Park area within 2 km29 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Genoa and Washington DC are level on 38.
GenoaWashington DC
Score3838
Tourist attractions within 2 km217
Park area within 2 km29 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 15 points.15
GenoaWashington DC
Score6176
Notable places within 2 km130305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
GenoaWashington DC
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 11 points.11
GenoaWashington DC
Score7362
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm65 mm to 108 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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Daytime high, °C
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Washington DC
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaWashington DC
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
1 h 5 m
€233-271
DCA · 5 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 40 m
€267-307
1 stop
DCA · 5 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureGenoaWashington DC
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m72 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaWashington DC
City population558,745689,545
People per km²2,3253,896
Museums within 10 km5199
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4182
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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. 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.