VacationSelector

Annecy or Cape Town?

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.

Cape Town
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AnnecyCape Town
Beaches & swimming. Cape Town leads by 60 points.60
AnnecyCape Town
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km929
Coast distance260 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Cape Town leads by 21 points.21
AnnecyCape Town
Score4667
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343650
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2042
Museums & heritage. Cape Town leads by 24 points.24
AnnecyCape Town
Score3054
Museums within 10 km925
Museums within 2 km of centre520
Share of museums within 2 km %5680
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Cape Town leads by 27 points.27
AnnecyCape Town
Score2047
Drinking venues within 4 km140483
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120389
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8681
Nightclubs within 4 km647
Nature & day trips. Annecy and Cape Town are level on 36.
AnnecyCape Town
Score3636
Protected land share 50 km %206
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km48 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Cape Town leads by 7 points.7
AnnecyCape Town
Score2936
Tourist attractions within 2 km419
Park area within 2 km48 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Cape Town leads by 22 points.22
AnnecyCape Town
Score2345
Notable places within 2 km1551
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cape Town leads by 23 points.23
AnnecyCape Town
Score6285
Price level global73.740.5
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Cape Town leads by 27 points.27
AnnecyCape Town
Score5986
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C18 °C to 27.5 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm10 mm to 97 mm
Dry months06
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
Cape Town
27
28
26
24
21
18
18
18
20
22
24
26
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Cape Town
18
18
17
16
15
15
15
15
15
15
16
17
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Cape Town
10
11
13
42
65
97
89
76
47
32
27
13
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cape Town
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Cape Town
12
10
9
8
6
6
6
7
8
9
10
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Cape Town: 1991-2020 normals, Cape Town Airport (17.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyCape Town
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
12 h 5 m
€634-815
CPT · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
11 h 40 m
€742-801
2 stops
CPT · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
11 h 45 m
€632-724
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 38 km
10 h 35 m
€717-799
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
9 h 40 m
€611-615
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
9 h 25 m
€850-932
2 stops
CPT · 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

MeasureAnnecyCape Town
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112112
Elevation418 m5 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsCape Town International Airport (CPT)18 km from centre44 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyCape Town
City population132,1173,776,313
People per km²1,9751,538
Museums within 10 km122
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre4465
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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.