VacationSelector

Annecy or Salzburg?

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 nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Salzburg
✓ Best match
42
match

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

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Scoreboard

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

AnnecySalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Salzburg are level on 0.
AnnecySalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km99
Coast distance260 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Salzburg leads by 3 points.3
AnnecySalzburg
Score4649
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2023
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 30 points.30
AnnecySalzburg
Score3060
Museums within 10 km942
Museums within 2 km of centre527
Share of museums within 2 km %5664
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Salzburg leads by 16 points.16
AnnecySalzburg
Score2036
Drinking venues within 4 km140294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8682
Nightclubs within 4 km616
Nature & day trips. Annecy leads by 9 points.9
AnnecySalzburg
Score3627
Protected land share 50 km %206
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 19 points.19
AnnecySalzburg
Score2948
Tourist attractions within 2 km417
Park area within 2 km48 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 23 points.23
AnnecySalzburg
Score2346
Notable places within 2 km1554
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 3 points.3
AnnecySalzburg
Score6259
Price level global73.776.9
Daily budget€160€160
Year-round weather. Annecy leads by 5 points.5
AnnecySalzburg
Score5954
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm47 mm to 168 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

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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Daytime high, °C
Annecy
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecySalzburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
2 h 40 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureAnnecySalzburg
Official languageFrenchGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation418 m424 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecySalzburg
City population132,117155,021
People per km²1,9752,360
Museums within 10 km138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre4450

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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. 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.