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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
BerlinThe Brandenburg Gate

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Berlin by Claudia Solano, Pexels License.

Annecy or Berlin?

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
  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Berlin for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Berlin’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, Berlin 38: Annecy leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Berlin 66: Berlin leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Berlin 86: Berlin leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Berlin 98: Berlin leads by 73 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Berlin 50: Annecy leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Berlin 66: Annecy leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Berlin 76: Berlin leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Berlin 82: Berlin leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Berlin 68: Berlin leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Berlin 48: Berlin leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Berlin 90: Berlin leads by 57 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Berlin 55: Berlin leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Berlin.

Your match

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

Annecy
50match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Berlin
Best match
69match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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
15 hdaylight a day

Berlin in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 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). Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecyBerlin
Official languageFrenchGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation418 m34 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyBerlin
City population132,1173,700,577
People per km²1,9754,153
Museums within 10 km1157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24

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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. 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.