VacationSelector

Geneva or Portland?

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 good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

GenevaPortland
Beaches & swimming. Geneva and Portland are level on 0.
GenevaPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4327
Coast distance279 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 4 points.4
GenevaPortland
Score7074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0281,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3544
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 17 points.17
GenevaPortland
Score5235
Museums within 10 km3523
Museums within 2 km of centre2015
Share of museums within 2 km %5765
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Portland leads by 8 points.8
GenevaPortland
Score5058
Drinking venues within 4 km549942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7855
Nightclubs within 4 km6032
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 24 points.24
GenevaPortland
Score5935
Protected land share 50 km %2713
Landscape blanket share 50 km %213
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km182 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 31 points.31
GenevaPortland
Score6534
Tourist attractions within 2 km288
Park area within 2 km182 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 21 points.21
GenevaPortland
Score5635
Notable places within 2 km9929
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Portland leads by 8 points.8
GenevaPortland
Score3543
Price level global110.5100
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 6 points.6
GenevaPortland
Score5965
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months03
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
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Portland
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). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaPortland
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 25 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
3 h 45 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 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

MeasureGenevaPortland
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-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation403 m152 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaPortland
City population209,061652,503
People per km²13,1481,736
Museums within 10 km3517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8082

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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.