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Annecy or Maastricht?

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.

Maastricht
✓ Best match
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AnnecyMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Maastricht are level on 0.
AnnecyMaastricht
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km96
Coast distance260 km118 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Maastricht leads by 2 points.2
AnnecyMaastricht
Score4648
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2022
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 23 points.23
AnnecyMaastricht
Score3053
Museums within 10 km923
Museums within 2 km of centre513
Share of museums within 2 km %5657
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Maastricht leads by 10 points.10
AnnecyMaastricht
Score2030
Drinking venues within 4 km140223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8682
Nightclubs within 4 km613
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 1 points.1
AnnecyMaastricht
Score3637
Protected land share 50 km %2019
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1911
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 17 points.17
AnnecyMaastricht
Score2946
Tourist attractions within 2 km415
Park area within 2 km48 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Maastricht leads by 13 points.13
AnnecyMaastricht
Score2336
Notable places within 2 km1532
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 4 points.4
AnnecyMaastricht
Score6258
Price level global73.779.2
Daily budget€160€181
Year-round weather. Annecy and Maastricht are level on 59.
AnnecyMaastricht
Score5959
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyMaastricht
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MST · 9 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
FaroFAO
2 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 55 m
€223
EIN · 70 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 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

MeasureAnnecyMaastricht
Official languageFrenchDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation418 m49 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyMaastricht
City population132,117120,227
People per km²1,9752,000
Museums within 10 km121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre4433

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.