VacationSelector

Geneva or Izmir?

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 nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

GenevaIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
GenevaIzmir
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km434
Coast distance279 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 21 points.21
GenevaIzmir
Score7049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3512
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 9 points.9
GenevaIzmir
Score5243
Museums within 10 km3547
Museums within 2 km of centre2027
Share of museums within 2 km %5757
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 12 points.12
GenevaIzmir
Score5062
Drinking venues within 4 km5491,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7868
Nightclubs within 4 km6070
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 30 points.30
GenevaIzmir
Score5929
Protected land share 50 km %274
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km182 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 30 points.30
GenevaIzmir
Score6535
Tourist attractions within 2 km286
Park area within 2 km182 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 16 points.16
GenevaIzmir
Score5640
Notable places within 2 km9939
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 54 points.54
GenevaIzmir
Score3589
Price level global110.535.2
Daily budget€248€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 13 points.13
GenevaIzmir
Score5972
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months05
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AnkaraESB
3 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 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

MeasureGenevaIzmir
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshTurkish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m2 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaIzmir
City population209,0614,493,242
People per km²13,1484,760
Museums within 10 km3529
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8020
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.