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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
The skyline and yachts on the canals, Fort Lauderdale
Fort LauderdaleThe skyline and yachts on the canals

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Fort Lauderdale by KeanoManu, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Annecy or Fort Lauderdale?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Annecy for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Annecy’s own page.

Choose Fort Lauderdale for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Fort Lauderdale’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Annecy 55, Fort Lauderdale 88: Fort Lauderdale leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Fort Lauderdale 47: Annecy leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Fort Lauderdale 28: Annecy leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Fort Lauderdale 52: Fort Lauderdale leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Fort Lauderdale 62: Annecy leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Fort Lauderdale 58: Annecy leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Fort Lauderdale 66: Fort Lauderdale leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Fort Lauderdale 32: Annecy leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Fort Lauderdale 52: Fort Lauderdale leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Fort Lauderdale 32: Annecy leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Fort Lauderdale 42: Fort Lauderdale leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Fort Lauderdale 40: Annecy leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Fort Lauderdale.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Annecy
50match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
50match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Annecy in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Fort Lauderdale in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
166 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Annecy has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Annecy's sunshine is measured 39 km from the centre, at Geneve-Cointrin.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 2007-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Annecy / Metz-Tessy (4.4 km from centre). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecyFort Lauderdale
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation418 m11 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyFort Lauderdale
City population132,117182,760
People per km²1,9751,829
Museums within 10 km16
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.