VacationSelector

Annecy or Kyoto?

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.

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AnnecyKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
AnnecyKyoto
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance260 km47 km
Water distance—47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 38 points.38
AnnecyKyoto
Score4684
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3435,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2022
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 42 points.42
AnnecyKyoto
Score3072
Museums within 10 km9132
Museums within 2 km of centre551
Share of museums within 2 km %5639
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 60 points.60
AnnecyKyoto
Score2080
Drinking venues within 4 km1403,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1202,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8673
Nightclubs within 4 km626
Nature & day trips. Annecy leads by 14 points.14
AnnecyKyoto
Score3622
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %192
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 37 points.37
AnnecyKyoto
Score2966
Tourist attractions within 2 km462
Park area within 2 km48 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 29 points.29
AnnecyKyoto
Score2352
Notable places within 2 km1579
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 8 points.8
AnnecyKyoto
Score6270
Price level global73.762.4
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 3 points.3
AnnecyKyoto
Score5962
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm40 mm to 232 mm
Dry months00
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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyKyoto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 38 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 81 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 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

MeasureAnnecyKyoto
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 m51 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyKyoto
City population132,1171,463,723
People per km²1,9751,768
Museums within 10 km176
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre4489
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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. 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.