VacationSelector

Geneva or Vancouver?

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 museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
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.

GenevaVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
GenevaVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km43109
Coast distance279 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 4 points.4
GenevaVancouver
Score7074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0281,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3535
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 18 points.18
GenevaVancouver
Score5234
Museums within 10 km3527
Museums within 2 km of centre2015
Share of museums within 2 km %5756
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 7 points.7
GenevaVancouver
Score5057
Drinking venues within 4 km549848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7871
Nightclubs within 4 km6044
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 18 points.18
GenevaVancouver
Score5977
Protected land share 50 km %2719
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km182 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 12 points.12
GenevaVancouver
Score6553
Tourist attractions within 2 km2815
Park area within 2 km182 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 8 points.8
GenevaVancouver
Score5648
Notable places within 2 km9963
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vancouver leads by 19 points.19
GenevaVancouver
Score3554
Price level global110.584
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 6 points.6
GenevaVancouver
Score5953
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromGenevaVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
10 h 40 m
€681-795
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 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

MeasureGenevaVancouver
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-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation403 m2 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaVancouver
City population209,061662,248
People per km²13,1485,759
Museums within 10 km3526
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8085
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.