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Annecy or Ottawa?

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.

Ottawa
✓ Best match
43
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

AnnecyOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Ottawa are level on 0.
AnnecyOttawa
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km99
Coast distance260 km423 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 18 points.18
AnnecyOttawa
Score4664
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2034
Museums & heritage. Ottawa leads by 2 points.2
AnnecyOttawa
Score3032
Museums within 10 km915
Museums within 2 km of centre58
Share of museums within 2 km %5653
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 24 points.24
AnnecyOttawa
Score2044
Drinking venues within 4 km140432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8670
Nightclubs within 4 km635
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 5 points.5
AnnecyOttawa
Score3641
Protected land share 50 km %208
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 17 points.17
AnnecyOttawa
Score2946
Tourist attractions within 2 km411
Park area within 2 km48 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 27 points.27
AnnecyOttawa
Score2350
Notable places within 2 km1571
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 8 points.8
AnnecyOttawa
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Annecy leads by 6 points.6
AnnecyOttawa
Score5953
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
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Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ottawa
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
Ottawa
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyOttawa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 25 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YOW · 12 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

MeasureAnnecyOttawa
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 m70 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyOttawa
City population132,1171,017,449
People per km²1,975366
Museums within 10 km120
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4462

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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.