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Geneva or Thessaloniki?

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 good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
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.

GenevaThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
GenevaThessaloniki
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km434
Coast distance279 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 20 points.20
GenevaThessaloniki
Score7050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 3 points.3
GenevaThessaloniki
Score5249
Museums within 10 km3534
Museums within 2 km of centre2022
Share of museums within 2 km %5765
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 17 points.17
GenevaThessaloniki
Score5067
Drinking venues within 4 km5491,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7857
Nightclubs within 4 km6061
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.6
GenevaThessaloniki
Score5965
Protected land share 50 km %2725
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km182 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 24 points.24
GenevaThessaloniki
Score6541
Tourist attractions within 2 km2816
Park area within 2 km182 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Geneva and Thessaloniki are level on 56.
GenevaThessaloniki
Score5656
Notable places within 2 km9998
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 39 points.39
GenevaThessaloniki
Score3574
Price level global110.555.8
Daily budget€248€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 13 points.13
GenevaThessaloniki
Score5972
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaThessaloniki
AthensATH
2 h 40 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 50 m
€155-238
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
GNB · 113 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureGenevaThessaloniki
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshGreek
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m6 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaThessaloniki
City population209,061309,617
People per km²13,14816,042
Museums within 10 km3531
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8045
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.