VacationSelector

Geneva or Oslo?

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 good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
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.

GenevaOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
GenevaOslo
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km43163
Coast distance279 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 3 points.3
GenevaOslo
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3534
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 4 points.4
GenevaOslo
Score5248
Museums within 10 km3570
Museums within 2 km of centre2037
Share of museums within 2 km %5753
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 3 points.3
GenevaOslo
Score5053
Drinking venues within 4 km549695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7881
Nightclubs within 4 km6041
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 2 points.2
GenevaOslo
Score5961
Protected land share 50 km %2722
Landscape blanket share 50 km %211
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km182 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 17 points.17
GenevaOslo
Score6548
Tourist attractions within 2 km2813
Park area within 2 km182 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 13 points.13
GenevaOslo
Score5669
Notable places within 2 km99207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Oslo leads by 19 points.19
GenevaOslo
Score3554
Price level global110.585.1
Daily budget€248€203
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 11 points.11
GenevaOslo
Score5948
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 40 m
€184-250
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
3 h 55 m
€221-254
2 stops
OSL · 37 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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

MeasureGenevaOslo
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation403 m23 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaOslo
City population209,061717,710
People per km²13,148–
Museums within 10 km3560
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8075
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.