VacationSelector

Annecy or Siena?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Siena
✓ Best match
39
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.

AnnecySiena
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Siena are level on 0.
AnnecySiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance260 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Annecy leads by 14 points.14
AnnecySiena
Score4632
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2011
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 41 points.41
AnnecySiena
Score3071
Museums within 10 km955
Museums within 2 km of centre551
Share of museums within 2 km %5693
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Annecy leads by 3 points.3
AnnecySiena
Score2017
Drinking venues within 4 km140142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8684
Nightclubs within 4 km61
Nature & day trips. Annecy leads by 17 points.17
AnnecySiena
Score3619
Protected land share 50 km %203
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Siena leads by 2 points.2
AnnecySiena
Score2931
Tourist attractions within 2 km413
Park area within 2 km48 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 27 points.27
AnnecySiena
Score2350
Notable places within 2 km1569
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 6 points.6
AnnecySiena
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 5 points.5
AnnecySiena
Score5964
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm49 mm to 136 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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Siena
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
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAnnecySiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 38 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRN · 142 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
2 h 45 m
€267-328
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 86 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

MeasureAnnecySiena
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation418 m322 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecySiena
City population132,11752,812
People per km²1,975446
Museums within 10 km129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre4425

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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.