VacationSelector

Annecy or Genoa?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Annecy if the trip is about the outdoors: more of the surrounding land is protected, there is more park space near the centre, and 3 theme parks lie within reach for a day out.

Choose Genoa if you want to swim and to walk to things: 37 beaches nearby, a sea warm enough for late summer, and far more museums, bars and notable buildings close to the centre.

Scoreboard

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

AnnecyGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
AnnecyGenoa
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km937
Coast distance260 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Genoa leads by 4 points.4
AnnecyGenoa
Score4650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2014
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
AnnecyGenoa
Score3055
Museums within 10 km947
Museums within 2 km of centre533
Share of museums within 2 km %5670
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 30 points.30
AnnecyGenoa
Score2050
Drinking venues within 4 km140637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8666
Nightclubs within 4 km617
Nature & day trips. Annecy leads by 1 points.1
AnnecyGenoa
Score3635
Protected land share 50 km %208
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km48 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Genoa leads by 9 points.9
AnnecyGenoa
Score2938
Tourist attractions within 2 km421
Park area within 2 km48 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 38 points.38
AnnecyGenoa
Score2361
Notable places within 2 km15130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 6 points.6
AnnecyGenoa
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
AnnecyGenoa
Score5973
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

Where they differ

Annecy is the greener trip: 20% of the surrounding land is protected against 8% around Genoa, with about twice as much park space near the centre. It also has 3 theme parks within reach where Genoa has none, and a somewhat wider range of kitchens.

Genoa is the coastal one: 37 beaches nearby against Annecy's 9, and sea at 21°C or more for four months. Its centre holds many more notable places within walking distance, many more museums, and about three times as many nightclubs.

Where they are alike

Day trips are the closest call. Both have protected land and parks within reach, and in each the case for a day out is about as strong as for staying in the centre.

Eating out is close too: Genoa has about twice as many restaurants near the centre, Annecy a somewhat wider range of kitchens. National price levels sit near each other, €160 in France against €155 in Italy, and neither city is strongly geared to families.

Which traveller are you?

If you plan to spend most days outdoors, take Annecy. More of the surrounding land is protected, there is roughly twice the park space near the centre, and 2 UNESCO-listed places lie within day-trip reach.

If you want beach days folded into a city break, Genoa: 37 beaches nearby and the sea at 25°C in August, alongside museums, bars and notable places clustered close enough to walk between.

Families are a split decision. Annecy has 3 theme parks within reach and more park space; Genoa has far more attractions near the centre and warm sea in summer, so it depends on the ages.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €160 and €155, are national price levels for France and Italy, not measurements of Annecy or Genoa. A heavily visited city can sit above its own country's average, by more than the gap between these two, so they cannot tell you which trip costs more.

Genoa's beach and weather strengths both peak in the same weeks: the warmest sea and driest air arrive in July and August, which is also when beaches are busiest. And its dry summer is not the whole year, November brings 122mm. Annecy's warmest months are not dry either.

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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F
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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Annecy
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Annecy is at its best from June to September, when highs reach 24-27°C. Rain is steady all year, 77-87mm through those same months, so showers come with the warmth; winter drops to 5°C.

Genoa suits July and August, by far the driest weeks on either side, at 12-20mm, with the sea at 24-25°C for swimming. Autumn reverses that, 122mm in November, though winter days near 12°C still make a walking trip workable out of season.

Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyGenoa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 38 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
AthensATH
2 h 40 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 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

MeasureAnnecyGenoa
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation418 m20 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyGenoa
City population132,117558,745
People per km²1,9752,325
Museums within 10 km151
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4441
Swim season, months above 21 °C–4 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.