VacationSelector

Berlin or Geneva?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Geneva
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BerlinGeneva
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Geneva are level on 0.
BerlinGeneva
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1743
Coast distance142 km279 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Berlin and Geneva are level on 70.
BerlinGeneva
Score7070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,028
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3335
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 27 points.27
BerlinGeneva
Score7952
Museums within 10 km20035
Museums within 2 km of centre8120
Share of museums within 2 km %4157
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 26 points.26
BerlinGeneva
Score7650
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114549
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3478
Nightclubs within 4 km13560
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 10 points.10
BerlinGeneva
Score4959
Protected land share 50 km %2027
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1621
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares182 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 11 points.11
BerlinGeneva
Score7665
Tourist attractions within 2 km5428
Park area within 2 km141 hectares182 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 28 points.28
BerlinGeneva
Score8456
Notable places within 2 km48699
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 25 points.25
BerlinGeneva
Score6035
Price level global75.9110.5
Daily budget€163€248
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 1 points.1
BerlinGeneva
Score6059
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C5.1 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm55 mm to 94 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinGeneva
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 km
55 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 5 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
10 h 20 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

MeasureBerlinGeneva
Official languageGermanFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m403 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinGeneva
City population3,782,202209,061
People per km²4,24413,148
Museums within 10 km15835
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8680

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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). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.