VacationSelector

Annecy or Los Angeles?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

AnnecyLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
AnnecyLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance260 km
Water distance
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 20 points.20
AnnecyLos Angeles
Score4666
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3431,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2022
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 19 points.19
AnnecyLos Angeles
Score3049
Museums within 10 km969
Museums within 2 km of centre523
Share of museums within 2 km %5633
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 34 points.34
AnnecyLos Angeles
Score2054
Drinking venues within 4 km140660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8665
Nightclubs within 4 km664
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
AnnecyLos Angeles
Score3662
Protected land share 50 km %2026
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km48 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Los Angeles leads by 4 points.4
AnnecyLos Angeles
Score2933
Tourist attractions within 2 km411
Park area within 2 km48 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 31 points.31
AnnecyLos Angeles
Score2354
Notable places within 2 km1588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 19 points.19
AnnecyLos Angeles
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 28 points.28
AnnecyLos Angeles
Score5987
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months08
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyLos Angeles
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 38 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 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

MeasureAnnecyLos Angeles
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation418 m106 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyLos Angeles
City population132,1173,898,747
People per km²1,9752,994
Museums within 10 km138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4446
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. 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.