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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Annecy or Melbourne?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Melbourne for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’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, Melbourne 50: Annecy leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Melbourne 70: Annecy leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Melbourne 62: Annecy leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Melbourne 31: Annecy leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Annecy
50match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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.

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). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecyMelbourne
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation418 m31 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyMelbourne
City population132,1175,350,705
People per km²1,975535
Museums within 10 km143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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.