VacationSelector

Annecy or Inverness?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Annecy
✓ Best match
34
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Inverness
25
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.

AnnecyInverness
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
AnnecyInverness
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance260 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Annecy leads by 25 points.25
AnnecyInverness
Score4621
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2011
Museums & heritage. Annecy leads by 10 points.10
AnnecyInverness
Score3020
Museums within 10 km96
Museums within 2 km of centre55
Share of museums within 2 km %5683
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Annecy leads by 5 points.5
AnnecyInverness
Score2015
Drinking venues within 4 km140113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre12098
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8687
Nightclubs within 4 km64
Nature & day trips. Annecy leads by 27 points.27
AnnecyInverness
Score369
Protected land share 50 km %2012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1911
Land share of disc %10088
Park area within 2 km48 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Annecy leads by 29 points.29
AnnecyInverness
Score290
Tourist attractions within 2 km43
Park area within 2 km48 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Inverness leads by 1 points.1
AnnecyInverness
Score2324
Notable places within 2 km1516
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 8 points.8
AnnecyInverness
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Annecy leads by 7 points.7
AnnecyInverness
Score5952
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm40 mm to 72 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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
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). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyInverness
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
BristolBRS
1 h 40 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
EdinburghEDI
2 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 55 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 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

MeasureAnnecyInverness
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation418 m7 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyInverness
City population132,11747,380
People per km²1,9752,289
Museums within 10 km13
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre4415
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.