VacationSelector

Beijing or Geneva?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Geneva
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BeijingGeneva
Beaches & swimming. Beijing and Geneva are level on 0.
BeijingGeneva
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km043
Coast distance145 km279 km
Water distance
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 11 points.11
BeijingGeneva
Score6352
Museums within 10 km9535
Museums within 2 km of centre1520
Share of museums within 2 km %1657
Unesco sites within 50 km62
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 24 points.24
BeijingGeneva
Score3559
Protected land share 50 km %327
Landscape blanket share 50 km %021
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km143 hectares182 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 12 points.12
BeijingGeneva
Score7765
Tourist attractions within 2 km4128
Park area within 2 km143 hectares182 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km122
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 6 points.6
BeijingGeneva
Score5056
Notable places within 2 km6999
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 44 points.44
BeijingGeneva
Score7935
Price level global49110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 7 points.7
BeijingGeneva
Score6659
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C5.1 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm55 mm to 94 mm
Dry months80
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingGeneva
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 55 m
€144-160
PKX · 45 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
LisbonLIS
12 h 5 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
MadridMAD
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
10 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 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

MeasureBeijingGeneva
Official languagePutonghuaFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m403 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingGeneva
City population21,893,095209,061
People per km²1,33413,148
Museums within 10 km8335
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre2980

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.