VacationSelector

Geneva or Vienna?

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 with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

GenevaVienna
Beaches & swimming. Geneva and Vienna are level on 0.
GenevaVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4322
Coast distance279 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 7 points.7
GenevaVienna
Score7077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0281,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3537
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 29 points.29
GenevaVienna
Score5281
Museums within 10 km35192
Museums within 2 km of centre20110
Share of museums within 2 km %5757
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 24 points.24
GenevaVienna
Score5074
Drinking venues within 4 km5491,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4271,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7856
Nightclubs within 4 km60108
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 27 points.27
GenevaVienna
Score5932
Protected land share 50 km %274
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km182 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 4 points.4
GenevaVienna
Score6569
Tourist attractions within 2 km2846
Park area within 2 km182 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 19 points.19
GenevaVienna
Score5675
Notable places within 2 km99287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 24 points.24
GenevaVienna
Score3559
Price level global110.576.9
Daily budget€248€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 2 points.2
GenevaVienna
Score5961
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasureGenevaVienna
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaVienna
City population209,0612,028,289
People per km²13,1484,890
Museums within 10 km35152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre80113

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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.