VacationSelector

Geneva or Stockholm?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

GenevaStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
GenevaStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4373
Coast distance279 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
GenevaStockholm
Score7076
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0281,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3536
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 17 points.17
GenevaStockholm
Score5269
Museums within 10 km3574
Museums within 2 km of centre2047
Share of museums within 2 km %5764
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
GenevaStockholm
Score5064
Drinking venues within 4 km5491,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7863
Nightclubs within 4 km60106
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 18 points.18
GenevaStockholm
Score5941
Protected land share 50 km %277
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km182 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 8 points.8
GenevaStockholm
Score6557
Tourist attractions within 2 km2823
Park area within 2 km182 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 23 points.23
GenevaStockholm
Score5679
Notable places within 2 km99357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 22 points.22
GenevaStockholm
Score3557
Price level global110.580.3
Daily budget€248€169
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 6 points.6
GenevaStockholm
Score5953
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months05
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasureGenevaStockholm
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshSwedish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m22 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaStockholm
City population209,061984,748
People per km²13,1485,260
Museums within 10 km35266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre8081
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.