VacationSelector

Annecy or Bilbao?

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.

Bilbao
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AnnecyBilbao
Beaches & swimming. Bilbao leads by 31 points.31
AnnecyBilbao
Score031
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance260 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 16 points.16
AnnecyBilbao
Score4662
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343840
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2026
Museums & heritage. Bilbao leads by 8 points.8
AnnecyBilbao
Score3038
Museums within 10 km925
Museums within 2 km of centre512
Share of museums within 2 km %5648
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 38 points.38
AnnecyBilbao
Score2058
Drinking venues within 4 km140869
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120730
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8684
Nightclubs within 4 km650
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 17 points.17
AnnecyBilbao
Score3653
Protected land share 50 km %2011
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km48 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 18 points.18
AnnecyBilbao
Score2947
Tourist attractions within 2 km417
Park area within 2 km48 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 29 points.29
AnnecyBilbao
Score2352
Notable places within 2 km1579
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 9 points.9
AnnecyBilbao
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 11 points.11
AnnecyBilbao
Score5970
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C13.5 °C to 26.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm53 mm to 170 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
Annecy
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Bilbao
14
14
17
18
21
24
25
26
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyBilbao
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
1 h 15 m
€84-118
BIO · 5 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 35 m
€77-114
BIO · 5 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 5 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

MeasureAnnecyBilbao
Official languageFrenchSpanish
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 m19 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyBilbao
City population132,117351,124
People per km²1,9758,440
Museums within 10 km117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4454
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.