VacationSelector

Geneva or Maastricht?

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

Your match

Geneva
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

GenevaMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Geneva and Maastricht are level on 0.
GenevaMaastricht
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km436
Coast distance279 km118 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 22 points.22
GenevaMaastricht
Score7048
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3522
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 1 points.1
GenevaMaastricht
Score5253
Museums within 10 km3523
Museums within 2 km of centre2013
Share of museums within 2 km %5757
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 20 points.20
GenevaMaastricht
Score5030
Drinking venues within 4 km549223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7882
Nightclubs within 4 km6013
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 22 points.22
GenevaMaastricht
Score5937
Protected land share 50 km %2719
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2111
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km182 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 19 points.19
GenevaMaastricht
Score6546
Tourist attractions within 2 km2815
Park area within 2 km182 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 20 points.20
GenevaMaastricht
Score5636
Notable places within 2 km9932
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 23 points.23
GenevaMaastricht
Score3558
Price level global110.579.2
Daily budget€248€181
Year-round weather. Geneva and Maastricht are level on 59.
GenevaMaastricht
Score5959
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm41 mm to 84 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
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaMaastricht
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MST · 9 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
FaroFAO
2 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 55 m
€223
EIN · 70 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 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

MeasureGenevaMaastricht
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshDutch
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 or 911
Elevation403 m49 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaMaastricht
City population209,061120,227
People per km²13,1482,000
Museums within 10 km3521
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre8033

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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.