VacationSelector

Geneva or Toronto?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

GenevaToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
GenevaToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km4358
Coast distance279 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 12 points.12
GenevaToronto
Score7082
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0282,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3539
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 9 points.9
GenevaToronto
Score5243
Museums within 10 km3535
Museums within 2 km of centre2025
Share of museums within 2 km %5771
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 19 points.19
GenevaToronto
Score5069
Drinking venues within 4 km5491,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7864
Nightclubs within 4 km60103
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 33 points.33
GenevaToronto
Score5926
Protected land share 50 km %272
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km182 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 8 points.8
GenevaToronto
Score6557
Tourist attractions within 2 km2823
Park area within 2 km182 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 5 points.5
GenevaToronto
Score5661
Notable places within 2 km99128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 19 points.19
GenevaToronto
Score3554
Price level global110.584
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 4 points.4
GenevaToronto
Score5955
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm51 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
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
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureGenevaToronto
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshFrench, English
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation403 m76 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaToronto
City population209,0612,794,356
People per km²13,1484,434
Museums within 10 km3532
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre80102
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.