VacationSelector

Annecy or Athens?

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

Your match

Annecy
34
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AnnecyAthens
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 48 points.48
AnnecyAthens
Score048
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km914
Coast distance260 km6 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 23 points.23
AnnecyAthens
Score4669
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3431,431
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2025
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 43 points.43
AnnecyAthens
Score3073
Museums within 10 km9122
Museums within 2 km of centre578
Share of museums within 2 km %5664
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Athens leads by 61 points.61
AnnecyAthens
Score2081
Drinking venues within 4 km1402,718
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1201,354
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8650
Nightclubs within 4 km6136
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 9 points.9
AnnecyAthens
Score3645
Protected land share 50 km %205
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %10050
Park area within 2 km48 hectares128 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 42 points.42
AnnecyAthens
Score2971
Tourist attractions within 2 km468
Park area within 2 km48 hectares128 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 52 points.52
AnnecyAthens
Score2375
Notable places within 2 km15291
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 12 points.12
AnnecyAthens
Score6274
Price level global73.755.8
Daily budget€160€125
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 15 points.15
AnnecyAthens
Score5974
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C13.4 °C to 34.5 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm6 mm to 86 mm
Dry months07
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
Annecy
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyAthens
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 38 km
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
3 h 30 m
€156-172
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
HeraklionHER
3 h 5 m
no fares
LYS · 83 km
1 h 0 m
€84-111
ATH · 20 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
GNB · 86 km
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
ATH · 20 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

MeasureAnnecyAthens
Official languageFrenchGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation418 m74 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyAthens
City population132,117643,452
People per km²1,97516,499
Museums within 10 km188
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre4482
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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). 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. 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.