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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Annecy or San Juan?

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 San Juan for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’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, San Juan 84: San Juan leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, San Juan 66: San Juan leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, San Juan 64: San Juan leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, San Juan 70: San Juan leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, San Juan 74: Annecy leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, San Juan 52: Annecy leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, San Juan 58: Annecy leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, San Juan 38: Annecy leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, San Juan 50: San Juan leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, San Juan 38: San Juan leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, San Juan 55: San Juan leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, San Juan 40: Annecy leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and San Juan.

Your match

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

Annecy
50match

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

San Juan
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife 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

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine 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.

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). San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecySan Juan
Official languageFrenchSpanish, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation418 m3 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecySan Juan
City population132,117342,259
People per km²1,9752,847
Museums within 10 km118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.