VacationSelector

Annecy or Manchester?

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 and year-round weather with your weighting.

Manchester
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AnnecyManchester
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
AnnecyManchester
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km910
Coast distance260 km27 km
Water distance27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 22 points.22
AnnecyManchester
Score4668
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 12 points.12
AnnecyManchester
Score3042
Museums within 10 km923
Museums within 2 km of centre511
Share of museums within 2 km %5648
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 42 points.42
AnnecyManchester
Score2062
Drinking venues within 4 km1401,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8677
Nightclubs within 4 km682
Nature & day trips. Annecy and Manchester are level on 36.
AnnecyManchester
Score3636
Protected land share 50 km %2017
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1917
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km48 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Manchester leads by 3 points.3
AnnecyManchester
Score2932
Tourist attractions within 2 km45
Park area within 2 km48 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 25 points.25
AnnecyManchester
Score2348
Notable places within 2 km1561
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 8 points.8
AnnecyManchester
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Annecy leads by 5 points.5
AnnecyManchester
Score5954
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyManchester
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureAnnecyManchester
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation418 m38 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyManchester
City population132,117547,627
People per km²1,9754,737
Museums within 10 km128
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre4463
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.