VacationSelector

Geneva or Verona?

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

Geneva
50
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Verona
48
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Geneva if eating out matters most and you want space outdoors: a wider range of kitchens, more restaurants near the centre, and 27% of the surrounding land protected.

Choose Verona if you want a warmer year, with daytime highs up to 30°C, drier winters, and more heritage within day-trip reach, including five UNESCO-listed places.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GenevaVerona
Beaches & swimming. Geneva and Verona are level on 0.
GenevaVerona
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km432
Coast distance279 km104 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 27 points.27
GenevaVerona
Score7043
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3513
Museums & heritage. Verona leads by 4 points.4
GenevaVerona
Score5256
Museums within 10 km3520
Museums within 2 km of centre2019
Share of museums within 2 km %5795
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 10 points.10
GenevaVerona
Score5040
Drinking venues within 4 km549416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7865
Nightclubs within 4 km609
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 23 points.23
GenevaVerona
Score5936
Protected land share 50 km %279
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km182 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Verona leads by 4 points.4
GenevaVerona
Score6569
Tourist attractions within 2 km2862
Park area within 2 km182 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 3 points.3
GenevaVerona
Score5653
Notable places within 2 km9982
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Verona leads by 33 points.33
GenevaVerona
Score3568
Price level global110.564.9
Daily budget€248€155
Year-round weather. Verona leads by 6 points.6
GenevaVerona
Score5965
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm38 mm to 85 mm
Dry months01
0255075100

Where they differ

Geneva has about twice as many restaurants near the centre and a much wider range of kitchens, plus somewhat more places to drink and many times as many nightclubs. It is also the greener trip: 27% of the land around it is protected against 9% around Verona, and about three times as much park space near the centre.

Verona's side of the ledger is price level: the national estimate behind it is €155 a day against €248 for Geneva's country, a country figure rather than a city one.

Where they are alike

Neither works as a swimming trip. Neither has a month with water at 21°C or more, so any beach time is a bonus rather than a plan.

Both are compact: the notable places sit within walking distance of the centre in each, and both have museums, Verona's clustered tightly around its centre. Both suit families too, Verona with more attractions near the centre, Geneva with about three times as much park space.

Which traveller are you?

If your days are organised around meals and evenings out, Geneva fits better: about twice as many restaurants near the centre, a much wider range of kitchens, and many times as many nightclubs, most of them central.

For heritage, Verona: 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Geneva's 2, and museums packed tightly around the centre, though Geneva holds about twice as many museums overall.

Families can go either way. Verona has about twice as many attractions near the centre and 4 theme parks within reach against Geneva's 2; Geneva answers with roughly three times the central park space.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget, €248 for Geneva's country and €155 for Verona's, is a national price level for restaurants and hotels, not a measurement of either city. A capital or a heavily visited city can sit far from its own national average, by more than the gap between these two figures, so treat it as a comparison of countries, not evidence about what either trip costs.

Warm months are not dry months in either: the heaviest rain in both falls in September and October, and Geneva has no month at 40mm or less. Verona's theme parks are within reach rather than in town.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Verona
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
4
3
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Geneva is at its best from June to August, with highs of 24-27°C, though rain sits at 77-81mm through those months, so it never dries out. September still reaches 21°C.

Verona's window is wider: May and September both sit near 24-25°C, June at 28°C, July and August at 30°C for anyone who wants heat. Its winters are the drier of the two, 38-43mm in January and February, but September brings 85mm.

Getting there

Flying fromGenevaVerona
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
2 h 55 m
€122-127
VCE · 106 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€235-253
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 106 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 45 m
€40-90
VRN · 10 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 106 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€172-262
1 stop
VRN · 10 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 55 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 106 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 106 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

MeasureGenevaVerona
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshItalian
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m59 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaVerona
City population209,061255,588
People per km²13,1481,285
Museums within 10 km3518
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre8035

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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. 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.