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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Annecy or Salt Lake City?

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

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Annecy leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Salt Lake City 40: Annecy leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Salt Lake City 30: Salt Lake City leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Salt Lake City 90: Annecy leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Salt Lake City 34: Annecy leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Salt Lake City 42: Annecy leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Salt Lake City 36: Salt Lake City leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Salt Lake City 40: Salt Lake City leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Salt Lake City 55: Salt Lake City leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Salt Lake City 38: Annecy leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Annecy
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and families 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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 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.

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). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecySalt Lake City
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation418 m1,288 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecySalt Lake City
City population132,117199,723
People per km²1,975690
Museums within 10 km112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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