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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
St. Petersburg, Florida

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Annecy or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Annecy leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: Annecy leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Annecy leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Annecy and St. Petersburg, Florida are level on 35.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, St. Petersburg, Florida 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 St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Annecy
50match

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

St. Petersburg, Florida
50match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AnnecySt. Petersburg, Florida

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). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecySt. Petersburg, Florida
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation418 m134 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecySt. Petersburg, Florida
City population132,117258,308
People per km²1,975725
Museums within 10 km113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.