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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License.

Annecy or Baku?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Annecy for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Annecy’s own page.

Choose Baku for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Baku’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Annecy 55, Baku 40: Annecy leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Baku 60: Baku leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Baku 62: Baku leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Baku 42: Baku leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Baku 30: Annecy leads by 62 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Baku 45: Annecy leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Baku 45: Annecy leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Baku 58: Annecy leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Baku 48: Baku leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Baku 64: Baku leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Baku 52: Baku leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Baku 30: Annecy leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Baku.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Annecy
50match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Annecy in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Baku in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Annecy has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Annecy's sunshine is measured 39 km from the centre, at Geneve-Cointrin.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 2007-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Annecy / Metz-Tessy (4.4 km from centre). Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecyBaku
Official languageFrenchAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Azerbaijan Manat (AZN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number112102 or 112
Elevation418 m-28 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyBaku
City population132,1172,300,500
People per km²1,9751,075
Museums within 10 km150
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.