VacationSelector

Annecy or San Sebastian?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AnnecySan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
AnnecySan Sebastian
Score055
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km910
Coast distance260 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 9 points.9
AnnecySan Sebastian
Score4655
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2026
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 9 points.9
AnnecySan Sebastian
Score3039
Museums within 10 km917
Museums within 2 km of centre57
Share of museums within 2 km %5641
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 20 points.20
AnnecySan Sebastian
Score2040
Drinking venues within 4 km140388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8687
Nightclubs within 4 km612
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 20 points.20
AnnecySan Sebastian
Score3656
Protected land share 50 km %2011
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km48 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. San Sebastian leads by 1 points.1
AnnecySan Sebastian
Score2930
Tourist attractions within 2 km45
Park area within 2 km48 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 31 points.31
AnnecySan Sebastian
Score2354
Notable places within 2 km1589
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 9 points.9
AnnecySan Sebastian
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Annecy leads by 1 points.1
AnnecySan Sebastian
Score5958
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm92 mm to 203 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
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecySan Sebastian
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
1 h 15 m
€84-118
BIO · 75 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 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

MeasureAnnecySan Sebastian
Official languageFrenchSpanish
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 m6 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecySan Sebastian
City population132,117189,866
People per km²1,9753,118
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre4445
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months

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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. 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. 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.