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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Annecy or Phnom Penh?

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
  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Annecy leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Phnom Penh 58: Phnom Penh leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Phnom Penh 28: Annecy leads by 64 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Phnom Penh 34: Annecy leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Phnom Penh 32: Annecy leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Phnom Penh 35: Annecy leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Phnom Penh 46: Phnom Penh leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 51 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Phnom Penh 32: Annecy leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Phnom Penh 50: Phnom Penh leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Phnom Penh.

Your match

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

Annecy
Best match
50match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Phnom Penh
44match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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
15 hdaylight a day

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AnnecyPhnom Penh

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). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecyPhnom Penh
Official languageFrenchKhmer
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation418 m11 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyPhnom Penh
City population132,1172,129,371
People per km²1,9753,138
Museums within 10 km13
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.