VacationSelector

Geneva or Rotterdam?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
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.

GenevaRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
GenevaRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4322
Coast distance279 km24 km
Water distance—24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 2 points.2
GenevaRotterdam
Score7072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3546
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 8 points.8
GenevaRotterdam
Score5260
Museums within 10 km3541
Museums within 2 km of centre2020
Share of museums within 2 km %5749
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 1 points.1
GenevaRotterdam
Score5049
Drinking venues within 4 km549542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7870
Nightclubs within 4 km6040
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 17 points.17
GenevaRotterdam
Score5942
Protected land share 50 km %2710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km182 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 3 points.3
GenevaRotterdam
Score6562
Tourist attractions within 2 km2827
Park area within 2 km182 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km28
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 5 points.5
GenevaRotterdam
Score5651
Notable places within 2 km9974
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 23 points.23
GenevaRotterdam
Score3558
Price level global110.579.2
Daily budget€248€181
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 3 points.3
GenevaRotterdam
Score5956
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaRotterdam
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 40 m
€184-250
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureGenevaRotterdam
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshDutch
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation403 m10 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaRotterdam
City population209,061664,311
People per km²13,1482,080
Museums within 10 km3540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre8077
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.