VacationSelector

Geneva or Miami?

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 museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

GenevaMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
GenevaMiami
Score095
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km4320
Coast distance279 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 5 points.5
GenevaMiami
Score7065
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3529
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 29 points.29
GenevaMiami
Score5223
Museums within 10 km3528
Museums within 2 km of centre206
Share of museums within 2 km %5721
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Geneva and Miami are level on 50.
GenevaMiami
Score5050
Drinking venues within 4 km549538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7853
Nightclubs within 4 km6063
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 13 points.13
GenevaMiami
Score5972
Protected land share 50 km %2716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10048
Park area within 2 km182 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 21 points.21
GenevaMiami
Score6544
Tourist attractions within 2 km2814
Park area within 2 km182 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 14 points.14
GenevaMiami
Score5642
Notable places within 2 km9945
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Miami leads by 8 points.8
GenevaMiami
Score3543
Price level global110.5100
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 15 points.15
GenevaMiami
Score5974
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 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

MeasureGenevaMiami
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation403 m2 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaMiami
City population209,061442,241
People per km²13,1483,046
Museums within 10 km3517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8039
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.