VacationSelector

Annecy or Shanghai?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Annecy
34
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families 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.

AnnecyShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
AnnecyShanghai
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance260 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 15 points.15
AnnecyShanghai
Score3045
Museums within 10 km9108
Museums within 2 km of centre528
Share of museums within 2 km %5626
Unesco sites within 50 km20
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 6 points.6
AnnecyShanghai
Score3642
Protected land share 50 km %209
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %10082
Park area within 2 km48 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 52 points.52
AnnecyShanghai
Score2981
Tourist attractions within 2 km486
Park area within 2 km48 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km310
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 28 points.28
AnnecyShanghai
Score2351
Notable places within 2 km1573
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
AnnecyShanghai
Score6279
Price level global73.749
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Shanghai leads by 6 points.6
AnnecyShanghai
Score5965
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm43 mm to 216 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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Annecy
No coastline within reach
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyShanghai
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 0 m
€150-154
PVG · 33 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
HGH · 149 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 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

MeasureAnnecyShanghai
Official languageFrenchPutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation418 m4 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyShanghai
City population132,11724,870,895
People per km²1,9753,922
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre4464
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.