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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0.

Annecy or Puerto Plata?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Puerto Plata for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’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 Plata 80: Puerto Plata leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Puerto Plata 40: Annecy leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Puerto Plata 35: Annecy leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Puerto Plata 38: Puerto Plata leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Puerto Plata 68: Annecy leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Puerto Plata 48: Annecy leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Puerto Plata 57: Annecy leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Puerto Plata 30: Annecy leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Puerto Plata 30: Annecy leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Puerto Plata 64: Puerto Plata leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Puerto Plata 18: Annecy leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Puerto Plata 35: Annecy leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Puerto Plata.

Your match

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

Annecy
Best match
50match

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

Puerto Plata
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 Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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 Plata 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 Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecyPuerto Plata
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation418 m34 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyPuerto Plata
City population132,117-
People per km²1,975-
Museums within 10 km11
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.