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The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Annecy or Steamboat Springs?

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

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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, Steamboat Springs 7: Annecy leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Annecy 50, Steamboat Springs 30: Annecy leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Annecy 38, Steamboat Springs 14: Annecy leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Annecy 25, Steamboat Springs 20: Annecy leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Annecy 92, Steamboat Springs 88: Annecy leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Annecy 70, Steamboat Springs 12: Annecy leads by 58 points.
Good for families. Annecy 60, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Annecy 62, Steamboat Springs 46: Annecy leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Annecy 35, Steamboat Springs 22: Annecy leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Annecy 35, Steamboat Springs 17: Annecy leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Annecy 33, Steamboat Springs 28: Annecy leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Annecy 48, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Annecy and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Annecy
Best match
50match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on wellness and families 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

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 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.

Steamboat Springs 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.

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). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnnecySteamboat Springs
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation418 m2,052 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecySteamboat Springs
City population132,11713,224
People per km²1,975503
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.