VacationSelector

Geneva or Porto?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
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.

GenevaPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
GenevaPorto
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4352
Coast distance279 km4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 2 points.2
GenevaPorto
Score7068
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0281,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3527
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 19 points.19
GenevaPorto
Score5271
Museums within 10 km35101
Museums within 2 km of centre2057
Share of museums within 2 km %5756
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Porto leads by 8 points.8
GenevaPorto
Score5058
Drinking venues within 4 km549900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7863
Nightclubs within 4 km6038
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 26 points.26
GenevaPorto
Score5933
Protected land share 50 km %277
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km182 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Geneva and Porto are level on 65.
GenevaPorto
Score6565
Tourist attractions within 2 km28122
Park area within 2 km182 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 2 points.2
GenevaPorto
Score5654
Notable places within 2 km9985
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 39 points.39
GenevaPorto
Score3574
Price level global110.555.9
Daily budget€248€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 12 points.12
GenevaPorto
Score5971
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm22 mm to 181 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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaPorto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasureGenevaPorto
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshPortuguese
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m104 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaPorto
City population209,061231,800
People per km²13,1485,599
Museums within 10 km3542
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre8070
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.