VacationSelector

Annecy or Beijing?

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

Your match

Annecy
34
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

AnnecyBeijing
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Beijing are level on 0.
AnnecyBeijing
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance260 km145 km
Water distance
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 33 points.33
AnnecyBeijing
Score3063
Museums within 10 km995
Museums within 2 km of centre515
Share of museums within 2 km %5616
Unesco sites within 50 km26
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Annecy leads by 1 points.1
AnnecyBeijing
Score3635
Protected land share 50 km %203
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares143 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 48 points.48
AnnecyBeijing
Score2977
Tourist attractions within 2 km441
Park area within 2 km48 hectares143 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km312
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 27 points.27
AnnecyBeijing
Score2350
Notable places within 2 km1569
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 17 points.17
AnnecyBeijing
Score6279
Price level global73.749
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 7 points.7
AnnecyBeijing
Score5966
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C2.2 °C to 31.8 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm3 mm to 163 mm
Dry months08
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyBeijing
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 55 m
€144-160
PKX · 45 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 38 km
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 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

MeasureAnnecyBeijing
Official languageFrenchPutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation418 m43 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyBeijing
City population132,11721,893,095
People per km²1,9751,334
Museums within 10 km183
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Distinct cuisines in the centre4429

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.