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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Annecy or Puerto Escondido?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Puerto Escondido 48: Annecy leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Puerto Escondido 8: Annecy leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Puerto Escondido 78: Annecy leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Puerto Escondido 35: Annecy leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Puerto Escondido 42: Annecy leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Puerto Escondido 40: Annecy leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Puerto Escondido 22: Annecy leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Puerto Escondido 12: Annecy leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Annecy
Best match
50match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices 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

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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.

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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.

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). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecyPuerto Escondido
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation418 m60 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyPuerto Escondido
City population132,11729,903
People per km²1,975-
Museums within 10 km10
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.