VacationSelector

Dublin or Geneva?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

DublinGeneva
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinGeneva
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1143
Coast distance3 km279 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin and Geneva are level on 70.
DublinGeneva
Score7070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9201,028
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3735
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 3 points.3
DublinGeneva
Score5552
Museums within 10 km4735
Museums within 2 km of centre3720
Share of museums within 2 km %7957
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
DublinGeneva
Score6450
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239549
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km4060
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 33 points.33
DublinGeneva
Score2659
Protected land share 50 km %327
Landscape blanket share 50 km %021
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares182 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 11 points.11
DublinGeneva
Score5465
Tourist attractions within 2 km4128
Park area within 2 km43 hectares182 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 6 points.6
DublinGeneva
Score6256
Notable places within 2 km14199
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 22 points.22
DublinGeneva
Score5735
Price level global80.2110.5
Daily budget€187€248
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 5 points.5
DublinGeneva
Score5459
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C5.1 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromDublinGeneva
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€93-114
DUB · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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

MeasureDublinGeneva
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m403 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinGeneva
City population592,713209,061
People per km²5,15413,148
Museums within 10 km4035
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7480
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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.