Record stores in Geneva

Vinyl hunting in Geneva, Geneva? There are 11 record shops mapped here. That's 11 record shops mapped around Geneva. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Geneva (within about 30 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Bongo Joe Records and La Citadelle, plus Harpyland. If a record shop's missing from Geneva's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Geneva record lineup

11 mapped within about 30 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Geneva

4 of the 11 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

6 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

The Geneva record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Bongo Joe Records on 1 Place de l'Île, La Citadelle on 20 Rue des Sources, Harpyland on 98 Rue de Carouge, Servette music on 92 Rue de la Servette, Vincenti guitars on 52 Boulevard de Saint-Georges, Vinyl Résistance on Rue des Terreaux-du-Temple, Disques Plain Chant - harmonia mundi, and Bar à Disques. That's 11 stops on the Geneva record crawl. 3 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Geneva

How the regulars work Geneva's bins:

• Buy the weird stuff at Bongo Joe Records. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Ask about the return policy at La Citadelle. Most used vinyl is sold as-is. Know the policy before the stylus hits a skip at home.
• Check for warps in the shop. Hold the record at eye level and sight along it. Warps that look minor at home look obvious in the store.
• Visit on restock days. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.

Good to know

We searched about 30 km around Geneva — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Geneva can take a while to appear. The 11 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 11 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.