VacationSelector

Geneva or Split?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Geneva
50
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Split
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

GenevaSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
GenevaSplit
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km4387
Coast distance279 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 32 points.32
GenevaSplit
Score7038
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Geneva and Split are level on 52.
GenevaSplit
Score5252
Museums within 10 km3518
Museums within 2 km of centre2016
Share of museums within 2 km %5789
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 9 points.9
GenevaSplit
Score5041
Drinking venues within 4 km549379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7869
Nightclubs within 4 km6023
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 21 points.21
GenevaSplit
Score5938
Protected land share 50 km %279
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km182 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 39 points.39
GenevaSplit
Score6526
Tourist attractions within 2 km289
Park area within 2 km182 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 14 points.14
GenevaSplit
Score5642
Notable places within 2 km9943
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 45 points.45
GenevaSplit
Score3580
Price level global110.548.5
Daily budget€248€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 10 points.10
GenevaSplit
Score5969
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Split
9
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€235-253
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 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

MeasureGenevaSplit
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshCroatian
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
Elevation403 m0 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaSplit
City population209,061160,577
People per km²13,148
Museums within 10 km3511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre8031
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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.