VacationSelector

Geneva or Prague?

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 with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GenevaPrague
Beaches & swimming. Geneva and Prague are level on 0.
GenevaPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km437
Coast distance279 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 5 points.5
GenevaPrague
Score7075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0281,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3529
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 20 points.20
GenevaPrague
Score5272
Museums within 10 km35138
Museums within 2 km of centre20100
Share of museums within 2 km %5772
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Prague leads by 27 points.27
GenevaPrague
Score5077
Drinking venues within 4 km5492,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4271,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7865
Nightclubs within 4 km60123
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 14 points.14
GenevaPrague
Score5945
Protected land share 50 km %2712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %218
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km182 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 10 points.10
GenevaPrague
Score6575
Tourist attractions within 2 km2854
Park area within 2 km182 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 20 points.20
GenevaPrague
Score5676
Notable places within 2 km99310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 40 points.40
GenevaPrague
Score3575
Price level global110.555.2
Daily budget€248€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 2 points.2
GenevaPrague
Score5961
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm22 mm to 80 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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
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). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
3 h 15 m
€176-241
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 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

MeasureGenevaPrague
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshCzech
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m235 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaPrague
City population209,0611,397,880
People per km²13,1482,817
Museums within 10 km3588
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8089

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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.