VacationSelector

Annecy or Helsinki?

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.

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
match

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

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AnnecyHelsinki
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki leads by 60 points.60
AnnecyHelsinki
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km9157
Coast distance260 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 25 points.25
AnnecyHelsinki
Score4671
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3431,005
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2038
Museums & heritage. Helsinki leads by 19 points.19
AnnecyHelsinki
Score3049
Museums within 10 km957
Museums within 2 km of centre523
Share of museums within 2 km %5640
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 36 points.36
AnnecyHelsinki
Score2056
Drinking venues within 4 km140807
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120607
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8675
Nightclubs within 4 km640
Nature & day trips. Helsinki leads by 6 points.6
AnnecyHelsinki
Score3642
Protected land share 50 km %203
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km48 hectares185 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 29 points.29
AnnecyHelsinki
Score2958
Tourist attractions within 2 km420
Park area within 2 km48 hectares185 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 50 points.50
AnnecyHelsinki
Score2373
Notable places within 2 km15257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 6 points.6
AnnecyHelsinki
Score6256
Price level global73.781.6
Daily budget€160€184
Year-round weather. Annecy leads by 11 points.11
AnnecyHelsinki
Score5948
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm32 mm to 84 mm
Dry months03
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyHelsinki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 40 m
€184-250
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 38 km
3 h 10 m
€206-225
HEL · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 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

MeasureAnnecyHelsinki
Official languageFrenchFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation418 m17 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyHelsinki
City population132,117694,392
People per km²1,9753,239
Museums within 10 km174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4478
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.