VacationSelector

Annecy or Calgary?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Calgary
✓ Best match
38
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

AnnecyCalgary
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Calgary are level on 0.
AnnecyCalgary
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km94
Coast distance260 km649 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 20 points.20
AnnecyCalgary
Score4666
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343749
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2036
Museums & heritage. Annecy leads by 21 points.21
AnnecyCalgary
Score309
Museums within 10 km98
Museums within 2 km of centre53
Share of museums within 2 km %5638
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 24 points.24
AnnecyCalgary
Score2044
Drinking venues within 4 km140465
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8674
Nightclubs within 4 km619
Nature & day trips. Annecy and Calgary are level on 36.
AnnecyCalgary
Score3636
Protected land share 50 km %204
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares142 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 12 points.12
AnnecyCalgary
Score2941
Tourist attractions within 2 km43
Park area within 2 km48 hectares142 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Calgary leads by 16 points.16
AnnecyCalgary
Score2339
Notable places within 2 km1537
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 8 points.8
AnnecyCalgary
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Annecy leads by 2 points.2
AnnecyCalgary
Score5957
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm9 mm to 106 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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Calgary
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyCalgary
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
EdinburghEDI
2 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 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

MeasureAnnecyCalgary
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation418 m1,045 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyCalgary
City population132,1171,306,784
People per km²1,9751,583
Museums within 10 km113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre4467

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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.