VacationSelector

Geneva or Granada?

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

Your match

Geneva
50
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Granada
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

GenevaGranada
Beaches & swimming. Geneva and Granada are level on 0.
GenevaGranada
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance279 km48 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 3 points.3
GenevaGranada
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028872
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3534
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 4 points.4
GenevaGranada
Score5248
Museums within 10 km3528
Museums within 2 km of centre2026
Share of museums within 2 km %5793
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Granada leads by 2 points.2
GenevaGranada
Score5052
Drinking venues within 4 km549637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427494
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7878
Nightclubs within 4 km6046
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 4 points.4
GenevaGranada
Score5963
Protected land share 50 km %2727
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10096
Park area within 2 km182 hectares46 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 9 points.9
GenevaGranada
Score6556
Tourist attractions within 2 km2860
Park area within 2 km182 hectares46 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 12 points.12
GenevaGranada
Score5644
Notable places within 2 km9950
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 36 points.36
GenevaGranada
Score3571
Price level global110.560.8
Daily budget€248€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 15 points.15
GenevaGranada
Score5974
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C13.1 °C to 34.8 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm0 mm to 51 mm
Dry months07
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
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaGranada
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 97 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 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

MeasureGenevaGranada
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshSpanish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m693 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaGranada
City population209,061233,975
People per km²13,1482,659
Museums within 10 km3519
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8062

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