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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License.

Annecy or Siem Reap?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Siem Reap for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Siem Reap’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, Siem Reap 5: Annecy leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Siem Reap 45: Annecy leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Siem Reap 42: Siem Reap leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Siem Reap 40: Annecy leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Siem Reap 55: Annecy leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Siem Reap 35: Annecy leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Siem Reap 30: Annecy leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Siem Reap 38: Siem Reap leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Siem Reap 32: Annecy leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Siem Reap 60: Siem Reap leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Siem Reap.

Your match

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

Annecy
Best match
50match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Siem Reap
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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.

Siem Reap has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAnnecySiem Reap
Official languageFrenchKhmer
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation418 m18 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecySiem Reap
City population132,117147,866
People per km²1,975-
Museums within 10 km16
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.