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Italy · 44.40°, 8.94° · 17 m

Genoa

Reaching Genoa from Zurich emits 9.8 kg CO₂e return by rail (6h 30m each way) against 83.2 kg by air — 8× the carbon. It averages 25.7 °C in August and 8.3 °C in January.

9.8kg CO₂e return by rail, from Zurich
261kg CO₂e return by air, from London
13.9hours of sunshine a day in July, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Genoa
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Amsterdam935 km27.6 kg14h 48m235 kg4h 42m
Barcelona646 km19.1 kg10h 48m163 kg4h 24m
Berlin961 km28.3 kg15h 6m242 kg4h 48m
Birmingham1,200 km43.7 kg18h 24m302 kg5h 6m
Bristol1,161 km44.4 kg18h 30m292 kg5h
Brussels795 km23.5 kg12h 54m200 kg4h 36m
Cardiff1,195 km47.6 kg19h 6m301 kg5h 6m
Copenhagen1,279 km37.8 kg19h 30m322 kg5h 12m
Dublin1,485 km373 kg5h 30m
Edinburgh1,543 km73.5 kg23h 30m388 kg5h 36m
Frankfurt635 km18.7 kg10h 42m160 kg4h 18m
Glasgow1,578 km75.3 kg23h 48m397 kg5h 36m
Leeds1,291 km52.5 kg19h 54m325 kg5h 12m
Lisbon1,628 km48.0 kg24h 18m410 kg5h 42m
Liverpool1,324 km53.7 kg20h 6m333 kg5h 18m
London1,038 km30.6 kg16h 12m261 kg4h 54m
Madrid1,127 km33.3 kg17h 24m284 kg5h
Manchester1,295 km51.7 kg19h 48m326 kg5h 12m
Munich462 km13.6 kg8h 18m116 kg4h 6m
Newcastle1,396 km62.6 kg21h 36m351 kg5h 24m
Nottingham1,203 km44.7 kg18h 36m303 kg5h 6m
Oslo1,729 km51.0 kg25h 42m435 kg5h 48m
Paris705 km20.8 kg11h 42m177 kg4h 24m
Prague755 km22.3 kg12h 18m190 kg4h 30m
Rome402 km11.9 kg7h 30m101 kg4h
Sheffield1,253 km48.9 kg19h 18m315 kg5h 12m
Southampton1,058 km39.6 kg17h 42m266 kg4h 54m
Stockholm1,770 km52.2 kg26h 12m445 kg5h 54m
Vienna710 km20.9 kg11h 42m179 kg4h 24m
Warsaw1,243 km36.7 kg19h313 kg5h 12m
Zurich331 km9.8 kg6h 30m83.2 kg3h 54m

The year in Genoa

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C8.39.711.813.817.521.424.825.720.917.911.89.0
Sun h/day6.06.58.110.710.812.513.912.29.86.47.15.9
Rain mm/day3.26.25.93.13.33.51.51.55.210.63.13.1

When to go

Genoa is warmest in August at 25.7 °C but brightest in July, averaging 13.9 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 8.3 °C.

Staying there

A hotel room in Italy emits about 14.3 kg CO₂e per night under UK Government 2026 factors, so a week adds roughly 100 kg — about 10.2× the carbon of getting there by rail from Zurich.

How busy it gets

Genova records 5.6 overnight stays per resident a year (4,589,690 nights in 2025). Comparatively quiet by European standards.

Eurostat, nights spent at tourist accommodation by NUTS 3 region, against resident population. Shown for context only — it plays no part in which destinations appear or in what order. Eurostat does not cover the United Kingdom after 2016, nor North Africa or the Levant at all, so this figure is absent for roughly a third of the destinations here.

Where to stay in Genoa

Places to stay in Genoa, Italy, on a live map. Prices and availability come from Stay22 and its booking partners.

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Distances are great-circle. Rail assumes international rail at 0.01135 kg CO₂e per passenger-km with a 1.3× track detour allowance; flights use 0.12576 kg per passenger-km including radiative forcing. Journey times are modelled, not timetabled. Full method.