Where to stay in Geneva

Every area rated for day and night, with the reasoning and the sources behind each rating.

🟡 Local-source safety assessment · 52 areas reviewed individually Geneva is a canton of 45 communes of which the city is one, so this map covers all of it: the Ville de Genève's eight quarters, and every other commune from Carouge to the vineyard villages on the French border. The canton also runs a Diagnostic local de sécurité — a survey of residents on how safe they feel — and its 2023 edition found 28.9% saying they feel unsafe walking alone in their own neighbourhood after 10pm, down from 32.8% in 2020 and from a peak of 49.9% in 2013. Where a commune's text cites that ranking it is describing what people report feeling, which is not the same thing as what is recorded, and the canton publishes both because they diverge. The canton recorded 50,020 criminal-code offences in 2025, 4% fewer than in 2024, of which 36,844 were against property and 2,291 against life and bodily integrity — three quarters of it theft. Burglaries have fallen by 40% since 2015. The canton does publish those figures per commune, but only as a PDF whose text layer runs the cantonal and communal columns together, so a row cannot be read back reliably; rather than risk publishing a commune's crime count wrong by a factor of ten, the ratings here come from sourced reporting and the per-commune table is left cited and unextracted. Source: Police cantonale genevoise, 14 August 2026. Methodology →

For a short stay in Geneva: Eaux-Vives Cité and Pâquis Sécheron. One area for each kind of trip, each shown with its own day and night rating — including where that rating says be careful. None of them is here because someone paid for it.