VacationSelector

Annecy or Budapest?

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.

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
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.

AnnecyBudapest
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Budapest are level on 0.
AnnecyBudapest
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km96
Coast distance260 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 31 points.31
AnnecyBudapest
Score4677
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3431,699
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 34 points.34
AnnecyBudapest
Score3064
Museums within 10 km9144
Museums within 2 km of centre564
Share of museums within 2 km %5644
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 52 points.52
AnnecyBudapest
Score2072
Drinking venues within 4 km1401,765
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1201,168
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8666
Nightclubs within 4 km697
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 4 points.4
AnnecyBudapest
Score3640
Protected land share 50 km %208
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares111 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 42 points.42
AnnecyBudapest
Score2971
Tourist attractions within 2 km475
Park area within 2 km48 hectares111 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 46 points.46
AnnecyBudapest
Score2369
Notable places within 2 km15206
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 18 points.18
AnnecyBudapest
Score6280
Price level global73.748
Daily budget€160€104
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 5 points.5
AnnecyBudapest
Score5964
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C3.6 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm27 mm to 75 mm
Dry months05
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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Annecy
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyBudapest
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 38 km
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
3 h 35 m
€159-167
BUD · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
5 h 25 m
€276-394
2 stops
BUD · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 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

MeasureAnnecyBudapest
Official languageFrenchHungarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Forint (HUF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation418 m117 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyBudapest
City population132,1171,685,209
People per km²1,9753,209
Museums within 10 km181
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4486

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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.