Geneva or Turin?
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, 2 points apart
Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.
Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.
What matters to you?
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The verdict
Choose Geneva if you want green space and open country around the city: protected land, parks near the centre, lake beaches and theme parks within reach for children.
Choose Turin if you want the museums and the evenings: about twice as many museums, held close to the centre, many more places to drink, and 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Geneva's 2.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Geneva and Turin are level on 0.
| Geneva | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 43 | 1 |
| Coast distance | 279 km | 105 km |
| Water distance | — | — |
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 6 points.6
| Geneva | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 70 | 64 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 1,028 | 1,198 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 35 | 21 |
Museums & heritage. Turin leads by 16 points.16
| Geneva | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 52 | 68 |
| Museums within 10 km | 35 | 65 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 20 | 39 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 57 | 60 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 2 | 4 |
Nightlife. Turin leads by 16 points.16
| Geneva | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 50 | 66 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 549 | 1,375 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 427 | 768 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 78 | 56 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 60 | 57 |
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 26 points.26
| Geneva | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 59 | 33 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 27 | 6 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 21 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 182 hectares | 72 hectares |
Good for families. Geneva leads by 12 points.12
| Geneva | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 65 | 53 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 28 | 36 |
| Park area within 2 km | 182 hectares | 72 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 2 | 0 |
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 1 points.1
| Geneva | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 56 | 55 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 99 | 92 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Turin leads by 33 points.33
| Geneva | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 35 | 68 |
| Price level global | 110.5 | 64.9 |
| Daily budget | €248 | €155 |
Year-round weather. Turin leads by 5 points.5
| Geneva | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 59 | 64 |
| Monthly daytime high | 5.1 °C to 26.8 °C | 7.1 °C to 28.5 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 55 mm to 94 mm | 44 mm to 127 mm |
| Dry months | 0 | 0 |
Where they differ
Geneva's advantage is what surrounds it. 27% of the land around the city is protected against 6% around Turin, there is far more park space near the centre, and 2 theme parks lie within reach where Turin has none.
Turin's advantage sits inside it: about twice as many museums, held tightly around the centre, and 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Geneva's 2. It also has many more places to drink. The national daily budget estimate is €155 in Italy against €248 in Switzerland.
Where they are alike
The two keep a similar number of notable places within walking distance of the centre, so a day on foot covers comparable ground in either city.
Weather is close, Turin a little warmer across the year at 7-29°C against Geneva's 5-27°C, and neither has a month under 40mm. Both have plenty of restaurants near the centre, Turin somewhat more, Geneva a wider range of kitchens. Neither is a place to swim: no month brings water to 21°C.
Which traveller are you?
Families with young children: Geneva. Far more park space near the centre, 2 theme parks within reach where Turin has none, and lake beaches for a warm afternoon, though none of it makes a swimming holiday.
A museum-led city break points to Turin: about twice as many museums, held tightly enough around the centre to cover several in a day, and 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Geneva's 2.
For late nights and eating out, Turin has many more places to drink, though about half sit away from the centre; Geneva keeps its nightclubs central and covers a wider range of kitchens.
What the numbers don't tell you
The daily budget figures, €248 for Switzerland and €155 for Italy, are national estimates of restaurant and hotel prices, not measurements of either city. A heavily visited city can sit far from its country's average, by more than the gap between the two figures, so they cannot tell you which city costs more.
No weather station near Turin records sunshine hours, so that series is missing rather than low, and its monthly picture rests on temperature and rainfall alone. Geneva's 43 nearby beaches are a count, not a season: no month brings water to 21°C, so they suit a hot afternoon rather than a trip built around swimming.
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).
Turin runs warmer and drier in spring, 14-18°C in March and April. July is its best summer month, 29°C and, at 57mm, the driest of the three.
Geneva is cooler in high summer, 24-27°C, with rain holding near 80mm. Its advantage comes in autumn, when Turin turns much wetter: 87-94mm from September to November against 113-127mm, though Geneva's highs fall to 9°C by the end of that run.
Getting there
| Flying from | Geneva | Turin |
|---|---|---|
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 35 m €91-200 GVA · 5 km | 1 h 45 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 8 h 0 m no fares GVA · 5 km | 8 h 15 m €542-635 1 stop MXP · 103 km |
| RomeFCO, CIA | 1 h 30 m no fares GVA · 5 km | 1 h 15 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 1 h 10 m €104-203 GVA · 5 km | 1 h 20 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| BarcelonaBCN | 1 h 25 m €65-78 GVA · 5 km | 1 h 25 m €36-129 TRN · 14 km |
| CataniaCTA | 2 h 5 m no fares GVA · 5 km | 1 h 55 m €41-129 TRN · 14 km |
| AmsterdamAMS | 1 h 30 m €160-186 GVA · 5 km | 1 h 40 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| PortoOPO | 2 h 10 m €127-171 1 stop GVA · 5 km | 2 h 20 m €136 TRN · 14 km |
| BeijingPEK, PKX | 10 h 20 m no fares GVA · 5 km | 10 h 10 m €710-815 1 stop MXP · 103 km |
| DubaiDXB, DWC | 6 h 25 m €318-351 1 stop GVA · 5 km | 6 h 10 m €375-563 MXP · 103 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
| Measure | Geneva | Turin |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | French, German, Italian, Romansh | Italian |
| Currency | Swiss Franc (CHF) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CJ230 V, 50 Hz | CFL230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 403 m | 239 m |
| Main airport | Geneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinations | Turin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre63 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 9 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Geneva | Turin |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 209,061 | 841,600 |
| People per km² | 13,148 | 6,474 |
| Museums within 10 km | 35 | 72 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 2 | 4 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 80 | 78 |
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