VacationSelector

Annecy or Pisa?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Pisa
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Annecy if you want a lake summer, a wider range of kitchens near the centre and more protected land to walk into, and you can live with cold winters and rain spread through the year.

Choose Pisa if museums and a tightly walkable centre matter more, or if you want sea warm enough to swim in, drier summers and a season that runs from May into September.

Scoreboard

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

AnnecyPisa
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
AnnecyPisa
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance260 km10 km
Water distance—10 km
Places to eat. Annecy leads by 12 points.12
AnnecyPisa
Score4634
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km209
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 25 points.25
AnnecyPisa
Score3055
Museums within 10 km927
Museums within 2 km of centre522
Share of museums within 2 km %5681
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Pisa leads by 8 points.8
AnnecyPisa
Score2028
Drinking venues within 4 km140232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8688
Nightclubs within 4 km63
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 3 points.3
AnnecyPisa
Score3639
Protected land share 50 km %209
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km48 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 18 points.18
AnnecyPisa
Score2947
Tourist attractions within 2 km420
Park area within 2 km48 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 24 points.24
AnnecyPisa
Score2347
Notable places within 2 km1558
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 6 points.6
AnnecyPisa
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 11 points.11
AnnecyPisa
Score5970
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
0255075100

Where they differ

Annecy has the wider range of kitchens, with about as many restaurants near the centre as Pisa. It also has more to walk into: 20% of the surrounding land is protected, park space near the centre is greater, and there are 9 lake beaches against Pisa's 1.

Pisa is the heritage trip, with roughly three times as many museums and notable places standing about three times as thick within walking distance of the centre. Its sea passes 21°C for four months, which Annecy never manages.

Where they are alike

Both keep open country close to a compact centre. Each has protected land around it and parks near the middle of town, and each offers day trips that do not require a long journey.

Evenings are modest in both. Drinking places and clubs sit close to the centre in each, Pisa with more bars, Annecy with more clubs, and neither runs on late nights. The national daily budgets behind them, €160 and €155, sit close together too.

Which traveller are you?

For a traveller who goes for museums and old streets, Pisa: it holds roughly three times as many museums, and its notable places are packed far more tightly into the walkable centre.

For a family, it depends on the week. Pisa has many more attractions near the centre and sea warm enough to swim in for four months. Annecy answers with more park space near the centre and 3 theme parks within reach against 2.

For someone travelling to eat and walk, Annecy: the wider range of kitchens near the centre, 20% of the surrounding land protected, and 9 beaches on the lake for a swim between walks.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €160 and €155, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels in each country, not measurements of Annecy or Pisa. A heavily visited city can sit further from its own national average than these two figures sit from each other, so neither says which trip will cost you more.

Beach counts and warm water are different things. Annecy's 9 beaches are on a lake, with no sea temperature at all, while Pisa's swimming case rests on warm sea rather than shoreline. And Pisa's autumn still reads warm while carrying its heaviest rain of the year.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Annecy
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Annecy is at its best from June to August, when highs sit at 24-27°C. Rain is steady rather than seasonal, 77-81mm in each of those months, so showers are part of the summer; September still reaches 21°C, and January stays near 5°C.

Pisa has the longer window, from May at 23°C through to September. July and August reach 30°C on 32-35mm of rain, with the sea at 22-25°C from June. October and November are wet, 125-132mm, and winter holds at 11-13°C.

Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRN · 142 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRN · 142 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 4 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

MeasureAnnecyPisa
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation418 m4 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyPisa
City population132,11788,737
People per km²1,975479
Museums within 10 km127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre4429
Swim season, months above 21 °C–4 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.