VacationSelector

Annecy or Hamburg?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

AnnecyHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Hamburg are level on 0.
AnnecyHamburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km916
Coast distance260 km22 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 27 points.27
AnnecyHamburg
Score4673
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3431,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2038
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 30 points.30
AnnecyHamburg
Score3060
Museums within 10 km994
Museums within 2 km of centre550
Share of museums within 2 km %5653
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 48 points.48
AnnecyHamburg
Score2068
Drinking venues within 4 km1401,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8662
Nightclubs within 4 km6119
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 4 points.4
AnnecyHamburg
Score3640
Protected land share 50 km %2014
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1910
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km48 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 31 points.31
AnnecyHamburg
Score2960
Tourist attractions within 2 km440
Park area within 2 km48 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 36 points.36
AnnecyHamburg
Score2359
Notable places within 2 km15118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 2 points.2
AnnecyHamburg
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Annecy leads by 4 points.4
AnnecyHamburg
Score5955
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm39 mm to 82 mm
Dry months01
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyHamburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 38 km
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 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

MeasureAnnecyHamburg
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 m6 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyHamburg
City population132,1171,910,160
People per km²1,9752,530
Museums within 10 km177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4483

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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.