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Annecy or Montreal?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Montreal
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AnnecyMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Montreal are level on 0.
AnnecyMontreal
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km97
Coast distance260 km276 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 28 points.28
AnnecyMontreal
Score4674
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3431,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2049
Museums & heritage. Montreal leads by 7 points.7
AnnecyMontreal
Score3037
Museums within 10 km939
Museums within 2 km of centre519
Share of museums within 2 km %5649
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 42 points.42
AnnecyMontreal
Score2062
Drinking venues within 4 km1401,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8649
Nightclubs within 4 km674
Nature & day trips. Annecy and Montreal are level on 36.
AnnecyMontreal
Score3636
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 21 points.21
AnnecyMontreal
Score2950
Tourist attractions within 2 km411
Park area within 2 km48 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 33 points.33
AnnecyMontreal
Score2356
Notable places within 2 km1598
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 8 points.8
AnnecyMontreal
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Annecy leads by 9 points.9
AnnecyMontreal
Score5950
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm69 mm to 121 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
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyMontreal
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 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

MeasureAnnecyMontreal
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation418 m31 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyMontreal
City population132,1171,895,211
People per km²1,9753,806
Museums within 10 km137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre4497

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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. 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.