Annecy or Strasbourg?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.
Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.
What matters to you?
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The verdict
Choose Strasbourg if you want the trip concentrated in the centre: many more notable places within walking distance, a wider range of kitchens, more museums, and more bars and clubs, with drier winters and early springs.
Choose Annecy if the trip points outwards instead: 3 theme parks within reach where Strasbourg has 1, more UNESCO-listed places within day-trip range, and more hours of sunshine across the year.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Strasbourg are level on 0.
| Annecy | Strasbourg | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 9 | 9 |
| Coast distance | 260 km | 398 km |
| Water distance | — | — |
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 21 points.21
| Annecy | Strasbourg | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 46 | 67 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 343 | 780 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 20 | 36 |
Museums & heritage. Strasbourg leads by 11 points.11
| Annecy | Strasbourg | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 30 | 41 |
| Museums within 10 km | 9 | 23 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 5 | 14 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 56 | 61 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 2 | 1 |
Nightlife. Strasbourg leads by 16 points.16
| Annecy | Strasbourg | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 20 | 36 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 140 | 305 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 120 | 264 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 86 | 87 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 6 | 17 |
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 18 points.18
| Annecy | Strasbourg | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 36 | 54 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 20 | 37 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 19 | 35 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 48 hectares | 71 hectares |
Good for families. Strasbourg leads by 9 points.9
| Annecy | Strasbourg | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 29 | 38 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 4 | 9 |
| Park area within 2 km | 48 hectares | 71 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 3 | 1 |
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 35 points.35
| Annecy | Strasbourg | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 23 | 58 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 15 | 109 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Annecy and Strasbourg are level on 62.
| Annecy | Strasbourg | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 62 | 62 |
| Price level global | 73.7 | 73.7 |
| Daily budget | €160 | €160 |
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 4 points.4
| Annecy | Strasbourg | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 59 | 63 |
| Monthly daytime high | 5.1 °C to 26.8 °C | 5.2 °C to 26.4 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 55 mm to 94 mm | 34 mm to 77 mm |
| Dry months | 0 | 3 |
Where they differ
Annecy's case is built outside the town. It has 3 theme parks within reach where Strasbourg has 1, and more UNESCO-listed places within day-trip range. It is also the sunnier of the two, 1927 hours a year against 1723.
Strasbourg packs many times as many notable places into walking distance of its centre, has about twice as many restaurants near the centre and a much wider range of kitchens, and a far wider choice of bars and clubs. Protected land covers 37% of its surroundings against 20% around Annecy.
Where they are alike
Neither is a place to plan a swimming holiday around. Both have 9 beaches nearby, and neither has a single month with sea at 21°C or more, so water is a side note in both cases.
Their weather runs almost in parallel, from about 5°C in January to 26-27°C in July, with the same coolest and warmest months. Both are moderate rather than strong for families and for museums: a handful of attractions and collections in each, not a deep bench.
Which traveller are you?
A weekender who wants museums, dinner and a drink without planning transport should take Strasbourg: about twice the restaurants near the centre, roughly three times the museums, and far more notable places inside walking range.
Families split. Annecy suits those building days around theme parks, with 3 within reach against Strasbourg's 1. Strasbourg suits those who want attractions and park space close to where they are staying.
Walkers and day-trippers lean to Strasbourg, where 37% of the surrounding land is protected against 20% around Annecy. Annecy answers with more sunshine over the year and more UNESCO-listed places within day-trip range.
What the numbers don't tell you
The value figure is a national price level, identical for both by construction, so the comparison between these two carries no information about which trip costs less. The €160 a day sitting beside it is one national estimate, not a measurement of Annecy or of Strasbourg, and should be read as a country-level guide only.
Dryness and warmth do not coincide. Strasbourg's driest months are its coldest, so low rainfall there marks winter rather than good walking weather, while Annecy's warmest months are among its wetter ones. And 9 beaches nearby in both promises more than it delivers with no month of sea at 21°C or more.
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).
Annecy is at its best from June to August, when highs reach 24-27°C. Rain is a constant, though: those same months bring 77-81mm, and autumn is wetter still, 87mm in September and 94mm in October, so late-season plans need a fallback.
Strasbourg matches that summer, 26°C in July and August, and is the better pick either side of it. April is already near 17°C, and January to March stay under 40mm, making the cooler half of the year markedly drier than Annecy's.
Getting there
| Flying from | Annecy | Strasbourg |
|---|---|---|
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 35 m €91-200 GVA · 38 km | 1 h 25 m no fares SXB · 10 km |
| PalmaPMI | 1 h 35 m no fares GVA · 38 km | 2 h 0 m no fares FKB · 33 km |
| NiceNCE | 1 h 0 m €64-114 GVA · 38 km | 1 h 20 m €81-198 SXB · 10 km |
| PortoOPO | 2 h 10 m €127-171 1 stop GVA · 38 km | 2 h 25 m no fares SXB · 10 km |
| BordeauxBOD | 1 h 20 m no fares GVA · 38 km | 1 h 35 m no fares SXB · 10 km |
| BarcelonaBCN | 1 h 25 m €65-78 GVA · 38 km | 1 h 45 m €133-212 1 stop SXB · 10 km |
| LisbonLIS | 2 h 25 m €156-181 1 stop GVA · 38 km | 2 h 50 m no fares STR · 109 km |
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 1 h 10 m €104-203 GVA · 38 km | 1 h 15 m no fares STR · 109 km |
| DubaiDXB, DWC | 6 h 25 m €318-351 1 stop GVA · 38 km | 6 h 15 m €232-366 1 stop ZRH · 137 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 8 h 0 m no fares GVA · 38 km | 8 h 5 m €606-782 1 stop ZRH · 137 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
| Measure | Annecy | Strasbourg |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | French | French |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CE230 V, 50 Hz | CE230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 418 m | 132 m |
| Main airport | Geneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinations | Strasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 11 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Annecy | Strasbourg |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 132,117 | 293,771 |
| People per km² | 1,975 | 3,752 |
| Museums within 10 km | 1 | 21 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 2 | 1 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 44 | 87 |
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