VacationSelector

Geneva or London?

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 with your weighting.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

GenevaLondon
Beaches & swimming. Geneva and London are level on 0.
GenevaLondon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4347
Coast distance279 km43 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 18 points.18
GenevaLondon
Score7088
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0283,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3540
Museums & heritage. London leads by 20 points.20
GenevaLondon
Score5272
Museums within 10 km35148
Museums within 2 km of centre2049
Share of museums within 2 km %5733
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. London leads by 45 points.45
GenevaLondon
Score5095
Drinking venues within 4 km5495,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4272,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7846
Nightclubs within 4 km60312
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 19 points.19
GenevaLondon
Score5940
Protected land share 50 km %2716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2114
Land share of disc %10097
Park area within 2 km182 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 10 points.10
GenevaLondon
Score6575
Tourist attractions within 2 km2885
Park area within 2 km182 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. London leads by 33 points.33
GenevaLondon
Score5689
Notable places within 2 km99649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. London leads by 19 points.19
GenevaLondon
Score3554
Price level global110.584.9
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. London leads by 4 points.4
GenevaLondon
Score5963
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months01
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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaLondon
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 23 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

MeasureGenevaLondon
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshEnglish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation403 m4 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaLondon
City population209,0618,799,728
People per km²13,1485,598
Museums within 10 km35215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre80116

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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.