VacationSelector

Geneva or Reykjavik?

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 nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
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.

GenevaReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
GenevaReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4333
Coast distance279 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 21 points.21
GenevaReykjavik
Score7049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3529
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 2 points.2
GenevaReykjavik
Score5250
Museums within 10 km3534
Museums within 2 km of centre2023
Share of museums within 2 km %5768
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 23 points.23
GenevaReykjavik
Score5027
Drinking venues within 4 km549192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7886
Nightclubs within 4 km6010
Nature & day trips. Geneva and Reykjavik are level on 59.
GenevaReykjavik
Score5959
Protected land share 50 km %2716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km182 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 23 points.23
GenevaReykjavik
Score6542
Tourist attractions within 2 km2821
Park area within 2 km182 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 8 points.8
GenevaReykjavik
Score5648
Notable places within 2 km9961
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Reykjavik leads by 6 points.6
GenevaReykjavik
Score3541
Price level global110.5102.8
Daily budget€248€243
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 22 points.22
GenevaReykjavik
Score5937
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm41 mm to 97 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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
4 h 10 m
€224-296
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 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

MeasureGenevaReykjavik
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshIcelandic
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m8 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaReykjavik
City population209,061138,772
People per km²13,148569
Museums within 10 km3523
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8042
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.