VacationSelector

Annecy or Faro?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AnnecyFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
AnnecyFaro
Score061
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km913
Coast distance260 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Annecy leads by 2 points.2
AnnecyFaro
Score4644
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2022
Museums & heritage. Annecy leads by 8 points.8
AnnecyFaro
Score3022
Museums within 10 km99
Museums within 2 km of centre58
Share of museums within 2 km %5689
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Faro leads by 1 points.1
AnnecyFaro
Score2021
Drinking venues within 4 km140143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8686
Nightclubs within 4 km68
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 21 points.21
AnnecyFaro
Score3657
Protected land share 50 km %2011
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km48 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 7 points.7
AnnecyFaro
Score2936
Tourist attractions within 2 km410
Park area within 2 km48 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Annecy leads by 1 points.1
AnnecyFaro
Score2322
Notable places within 2 km1514
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 12 points.12
AnnecyFaro
Score6274
Price level global73.755.9
Daily budget€160€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 24 points.24
AnnecyFaro
Score5983
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm1 mm to 102 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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
1 h 15 m
€37-132
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureAnnecyFaro
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation418 m10 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyFaro
City population132,11764,560
People per km²1,975319
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre4434
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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.