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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Annecy or Hiroshima?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Annecy leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Hiroshima 62: Annecy leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Annecy and Hiroshima are level on 60.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Annecy
50match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecyHiroshima
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation418 m3 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyHiroshima
City population132,1171,198,021
People per km²1,9751,324
Museums within 10 km118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.