VacationSelector

Geneva or New York?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

GenevaNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
GenevaNew York
Score064
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km4317
Coast distance279 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 25 points.25
GenevaNew York
Score7095
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0286,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3538
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 8 points.8
GenevaNew York
Score5260
Museums within 10 km35119
Museums within 2 km of centre2031
Share of museums within 2 km %5726
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. New York leads by 39 points.39
GenevaNew York
Score5089
Drinking venues within 4 km5494,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4272,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7848
Nightclubs within 4 km60192
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 20 points.20
GenevaNew York
Score5939
Protected land share 50 km %274
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10069
Park area within 2 km182 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 7 points.7
GenevaNew York
Score6572
Tourist attractions within 2 km2837
Park area within 2 km182 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. New York leads by 18 points.18
GenevaNew York
Score5674
Notable places within 2 km99268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. New York leads by 8 points.8
GenevaNew York
Score3543
Price level global110.5100
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 1 points.1
GenevaNew York
Score5958
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
New York
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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
7 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 25 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureGenevaNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaNew York
City population209,0618,804,190
People per km²13,1487,256
Museums within 10 km35157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre80132
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.