Geneva - Post Report Question and Answers
What is the overall climate: is it extremely hot or cold, wet or dry, at any time of year, for example?
Surprisingly little snow in Geneva in the winter. The climate is like Virginia, when I was expecting Vermont. - Jun 2022
Right now Southern France is hot. Geneva can be gray in the winter. - Jul 2018
The stereotypical images of tons of snow in Switzerland is just not true. The weather is surprisingly temperate and I rarely needed my warmest winter coat. There are usually a couple of weeks of cold winter weather and ice but the snow rarely sticks around for more than a couple of days. For real snow you need to drive into the mountains. The summers are mostly very pleasant with a couple of weeks of intense heat. The hardest part is not having a/c if you are used to it. The houses are built to lock heat in and even nice summer days can get unbearable inside, especially on higher floors. There is very little a/c - even malls and restaurants with a/c are luke-warm at best. Fall and Spring are gorgeous, although there are long bouts of rain and gray that sometimes feel like they will never end. On the other hand there are often long bouts of beautiful sunny days too. - Mar 2014
Surprisingly - it's been a mild winter (2014) so far. - Mar 2014
Winter is cold and grey in Geneva. The blue sky is there, but you must climb in altitude in order to see it. Geneva is on a lake. Summer is gorgeous: warm, dry and sunny. Fall and spring are very short. - Mar 2013
Perfect, in a four seasons sense. I haven't seen spring yet, but Autumn was warm and up until late October felt like a mild New England summer. Winter has been snowy and pretty and nice. Hovers at freezing for the most part, or slightly higher. Some cold snaps, but they rarely last for very long. It's really great weather. - Feb 2012
Spring and summer are lovely! The weather is so perfect, many times there are two harvesting seasons here for fruits and vegetables. The humidity during the summer can be a little high at times, but usually a rainstorm will take care of that. The weather turns cooler and cloudy starting mid-September and becomes progressively colder and "darker" until February. The snow this past winter was the best in over a decade. The tempuratures range from -4 C in the dead of winter to around 25-30 C in the summer. - Jul 2009
