VacationSelector

Annecy or Dresden?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Dresden
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on good for families 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.

AnnecyDresden
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Dresden are level on 0.
AnnecyDresden
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km922
Coast distance260 km267 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 15 points.15
AnnecyDresden
Score4661
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2042
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 24 points.24
AnnecyDresden
Score3054
Museums within 10 km966
Museums within 2 km of centre534
Share of museums within 2 km %5652
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 22 points.22
AnnecyDresden
Score2042
Drinking venues within 4 km140359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8674
Nightclubs within 4 km643
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
AnnecyDresden
Score3639
Protected land share 50 km %2014
Landscape blanket share 50 km %199
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 30 points.30
AnnecyDresden
Score2959
Tourist attractions within 2 km432
Park area within 2 km48 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 30 points.30
AnnecyDresden
Score2353
Notable places within 2 km1582
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 2 points.2
AnnecyDresden
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
AnnecyDresden
Score5962
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months04
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
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dresden
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyDresden
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 38 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 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

MeasureAnnecyDresden
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 m126 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyDresden
City population132,117564,904
People per km²1,9751,720
Museums within 10 km170
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4477

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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. 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.