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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Annecy or Los Cabos?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Cabos’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, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Los Cabos 54: Los Cabos leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Los Cabos 20: Annecy leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Los Cabos 78: Annecy leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Los Cabos 42: Annecy leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Los Cabos 55: Annecy leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Los Cabos 28: Annecy leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Los Cabos 36: Los Cabos leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Los Cabos 28: Annecy leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Los Cabos 12: Annecy leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Annecy
Best match
50match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on nightlife and beaches 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

Los Cabos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
19 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 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.

Los Cabos has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAnnecyLos Cabos
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation418 m11 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyLos Cabos
City population132,117202,694
People per km²1,975-
Museums within 10 km11
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.