VacationSelector

Geneva or Valencia?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
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.

GenevaValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
GenevaValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km4312
Coast distance279 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 8 points.8
GenevaValencia
Score7078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0281,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3533
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 3 points.3
GenevaValencia
Score5255
Museums within 10 km3559
Museums within 2 km of centre2026
Share of museums within 2 km %5744
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 20 points.20
GenevaValencia
Score5070
Drinking venues within 4 km5491,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7863
Nightclubs within 4 km60108
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 6 points.6
GenevaValencia
Score5953
Protected land share 50 km %2710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km182 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 23 points.23
GenevaValencia
Score6542
Tourist attractions within 2 km2812
Park area within 2 km182 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 4 points.4
GenevaValencia
Score5652
Notable places within 2 km9978
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 36 points.36
GenevaValencia
Score3571
Price level global110.560.8
Daily budget€248€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 25 points.25
GenevaValencia
Score5984
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
1 h 30 m
€60-95
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

MeasureGenevaValencia
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshSpanish
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 m15 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaValencia
City population209,061840,792
People per km²13,1486,242
Museums within 10 km3546
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre8092
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.