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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0.

Annecy or Punta Cana?

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 Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’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, Punta Cana 94: Punta Cana leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Punta Cana 30: Annecy leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Punta Cana 8: Annecy leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Punta Cana 40: Punta Cana leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Punta Cana 52: Annecy leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Punta Cana 35: Annecy leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Punta Cana 68: Punta Cana leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Punta Cana 15: Annecy leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Punta Cana 30: Annecy leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Punta Cana 44: Punta Cana leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Punta Cana 15: Annecy leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Punta Cana 52: Punta Cana leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Punta Cana.

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.

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 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.

Punta Cana 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). Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecyPunta Cana
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 m28 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyPunta Cana
City population132,117138,919
People per km²1,975292
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.