VacationSelector

Annecy or Malaga?

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

Your match

Annecy
34
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AnnecyMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 66 points.66
AnnecyMalaga
Score066
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km921
Coast distance260 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 23 points.23
AnnecyMalaga
Score4669
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3431,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2034
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 23 points.23
AnnecyMalaga
Score3053
Museums within 10 km940
Museums within 2 km of centre535
Share of museums within 2 km %5688
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 34 points.34
AnnecyMalaga
Score2054
Drinking venues within 4 km140715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8668
Nightclubs within 4 km645
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 7 points.7
AnnecyMalaga
Score3643
Protected land share 50 km %207
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %10063
Park area within 2 km48 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 24 points.24
AnnecyMalaga
Score2953
Tourist attractions within 2 km433
Park area within 2 km48 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Malaga leads by 14 points.14
AnnecyMalaga
Score2337
Notable places within 2 km1533
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 9 points.9
AnnecyMalaga
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 23 points.23
AnnecyMalaga
Score5982
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months05
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 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

MeasureAnnecyMalaga
Official languageFrenchSpanish
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
Elevation418 m18 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyMalaga
City population132,117599,063
People per km²1,9751,517
Museums within 10 km132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4465
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.