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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Annecy or Palm Beach?

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
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Beach’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, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Palm Beach 47: Annecy leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Palm Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Palm Beach 58: Annecy leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Palm Beach 55: Annecy leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Palm Beach 32: Annecy leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Palm Beach 12: Annecy leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Annecy
50match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Palm Beach
49match

Wins on shopping and beaches 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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecyPalm Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation418 m2 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyPalm Beach
City population132,1179,245
People per km²1,975322
Museums within 10 km14
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.