VacationSelector

Geneva or Palermo?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
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.

GenevaPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
GenevaPalermo
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km4313
Coast distance279 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 20 points.20
GenevaPalermo
Score7050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3513
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 2 points.2
GenevaPalermo
Score5250
Museums within 10 km3532
Museums within 2 km of centre2026
Share of museums within 2 km %5781
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 3 points.3
GenevaPalermo
Score5053
Drinking venues within 4 km549799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7864
Nightclubs within 4 km6016
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 23 points.23
GenevaPalermo
Score5936
Protected land share 50 km %274
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km182 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 24 points.24
GenevaPalermo
Score6541
Tourist attractions within 2 km2816
Park area within 2 km182 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 1 points.1
GenevaPalermo
Score5657
Notable places within 2 km99104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 33 points.33
GenevaPalermo
Score3568
Price level global110.564.9
Daily budget€248€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 18 points.18
GenevaPalermo
Score5977
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months07
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaPalermo
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
55 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 45 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 55 m
€161-283
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
GNB · 113 km
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 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

MeasureGenevaPalermo
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshItalian
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m14 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaPalermo
City population209,061630,167
People per km²13,1483,924
Museums within 10 km3542
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8033
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.