VacationSelector

Geneva or West Palm Beach?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Geneva
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

GenevaWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
GenevaWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km4310
Coast distance279 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 33 points.33
GenevaWest Palm Beach
Score7037
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3514
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 35 points.35
GenevaWest Palm Beach
Score5217
Museums within 10 km355
Museums within 2 km of centre203
Share of museums within 2 km %5760
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 30 points.30
GenevaWest Palm Beach
Score5020
Drinking venues within 4 km549132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre42790
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7868
Nightclubs within 4 km6010
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.10
GenevaWest Palm Beach
Score5969
Protected land share 50 km %2715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km182 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 44 points.44
GenevaWest Palm Beach
Score6521
Tourist attractions within 2 km283
Park area within 2 km182 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 44 points.44
GenevaWest Palm Beach
Score5612
Notable places within 2 km998
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.8
GenevaWest Palm Beach
Score3543
Price level global110.5100
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.16
GenevaWest Palm Beach
Score5975
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 25 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureGenevaWest Palm Beach
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation403 m6 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaWest Palm Beach
City population209,061117,415
People per km²13,148786
Museums within 10 km354
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8018
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.