VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Annecy?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Annecy
34
match

Wins on value for money 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.

AmsterdamAnnecy
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamAnnecy
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km339
Coast distance24 km260 km
Water distance24 km—
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 37 points.37
AmsterdamAnnecy
Score8346
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957343
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4420
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 50 points.50
AmsterdamAnnecy
Score8030
Museums within 10 km989
Museums within 2 km of centre695
Share of museums within 2 km %7056
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 50 points.50
AmsterdamAnnecy
Score7020
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543140
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078120
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7086
Nightclubs within 4 km1146
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 24 points.24
AmsterdamAnnecy
Score6036
Protected land share 50 km %2120
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 39 points.39
AmsterdamAnnecy
Score6829
Tourist attractions within 2 km744
Park area within 2 km49 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 45 points.45
AmsterdamAnnecy
Score6823
Notable places within 2 km19615
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 4 points.4
AmsterdamAnnecy
Score5862
Price level global79.273.7
Daily budget€181€160
Year-round weather. Annecy leads by 2 points.2
AmsterdamAnnecy
Score5759
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C5.1 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm55 mm to 94 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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Annecy
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamAnnecy
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€188-239
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 38 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 38 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

MeasureAmsterdamAnnecy
Official languageDutchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m418 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamAnnecy
City population921,468132,117
People per km²4,2081,975
Museums within 10 km1011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre9844
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.