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Brussels or Geneva?

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

Your match

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Geneva
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

BrusselsGeneva
Beaches & swimming. Brussels and Geneva are level on 0.
BrusselsGeneva
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km043
Coast distance56 km279 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 11 points.11
BrusselsGeneva
Score8170
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7791,028
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4435
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 28 points.28
BrusselsGeneva
Score8052
Museums within 10 km12035
Museums within 2 km of centre5920
Share of museums within 2 km %4957
Unesco sites within 50 km102
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 18 points.18
BrusselsGeneva
Score6850
Drinking venues within 4 km1,414549
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6178
Nightclubs within 4 km8460
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 28 points.28
BrusselsGeneva
Score3159
Protected land share 50 km %627
Landscape blanket share 50 km %121
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares182 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 9 points.9
BrusselsGeneva
Score5665
Tourist attractions within 2 km2828
Park area within 2 km65 hectares182 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 17 points.17
BrusselsGeneva
Score7356
Notable places within 2 km25499
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brussels leads by 25 points.25
BrusselsGeneva
Score6035
Price level global76.2110.5
Daily budget€180€248
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 2 points.2
BrusselsGeneva
Score5759
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C5.1 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm55 mm to 94 mm
Dry months00
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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsGeneva
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
PortoOPO
2 h 25 m
€92-143
BRU · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 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

MeasureBrusselsGeneva
Official languageFrench, German, DutchFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m403 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsGeneva
City population195,546209,061
People per km²5,90813,148
Museums within 10 km10535
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km102
Distinct cuisines in the centre10980

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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.