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Annecy or Stuttgart?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Stuttgart
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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The verdict

Choose Annecy if you want a small base of about 132,000 people, with 9 beaches close by for summer swimming and a centre whose sights and museums sit within a short walk of each other.

Choose Stuttgart if you want more of everything urban: many more museums, more restaurants near the centre and far more places to drink, with protected countryside and parks for days out.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AnnecyStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Stuttgart are level on 0.
AnnecyStuttgart
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km93
Coast distance260 km476 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Stuttgart leads by 13 points.13
AnnecyStuttgart
Score4659
Restaurants within 2 km of centre343575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2029
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 26 points.26
AnnecyStuttgart
Score3056
Museums within 10 km965
Museums within 2 km of centre521
Share of museums within 2 km %5632
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Stuttgart leads by 29 points.29
AnnecyStuttgart
Score2049
Drinking venues within 4 km140524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre120374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8671
Nightclubs within 4 km653
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 44 points.44
AnnecyStuttgart
Score3680
Protected land share 50 km %2051
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1931
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Stuttgart leads by 16 points.16
AnnecyStuttgart
Score2945
Tourist attractions within 2 km411
Park area within 2 km48 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Stuttgart leads by 21 points.21
AnnecyStuttgart
Score2344
Notable places within 2 km1550
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Annecy leads by 2 points.2
AnnecyStuttgart
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 4 points.4
AnnecyStuttgart
Score5963
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

Where they differ

Annecy is the swimming option, with 9 beaches nearby against Stuttgart's 3, and 3 theme parks within reach against 2. Its museums are fewer, but they sit tightly around the centre, so a single walk covers most of what there is to see.

Stuttgart has many times as many museums and nightclubs, far more places to drink, and more restaurants and kitchens near the centre. Around it, 51% of the land is protected against 20% at Annecy, with more park space close in.

Where they are alike

Neither is a place to plan a beach holiday around. Annecy has 9 beaches nearby and Stuttgart 3, but neither has warm sea within reach, so the swimming is freshwater and limited to the warm months.

They also line up on cost and climate. The national daily budget estimates are close, €160 and €163, and both run daytime highs of about 5-27°C across the year, so a trip in the same month feels similar in either city.

Which traveller are you?

If your days run on museums and your evenings on bars and clubs, Stuttgart is the clearer choice: many times as many museums, far more places to drink, and more notable places within walking distance of the centre.

If the trip is built around swimming and a small centre you can cross on foot, take Annecy: 9 beaches close by against Stuttgart's 3, in a town a fraction of Stuttgart's size.

For days out of the city, Stuttgart again: 51% of the surrounding land is protected against 20%, with more park space near the centre; Annecy counters with 3 theme parks within reach against 2, useful with children.

What the numbers don't tell you

Annecy's beach advantage is seasonal. With no warm sea and highs of 5-6°C in January, those 9 beaches are usable only around the summer peak, exactly when the town is busiest, and summer rain here runs 77-81mm a month, so a swimming trip is not a settled one.

The daily budget figures are national price levels for restaurants and hotels, one per country, not measurements of Annecy or Stuttgart. A single city can sit well above or below its own national average, by more than the small gap between these two, so treat them as background rather than a comparison.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Annecy
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Annecy
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Annecy
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Annecy
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Annecy: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (39 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Annecy's window is June to August, with highs of 24-27°C. Rain does not ease off for summer, 77-81mm a month, and autumn turns wetter still, up to 94mm in October.

Stuttgart matches that summer warmth at 26°C but stays drier, and it holds up better either side: September is still 21°C with about half Annecy's rain, and April sees 37mm against 66mm. For a spring or autumn trip, Stuttgart is the safer pick; in deep winter both sit at 5-6°C.

Getting there

Flying fromAnnecyStuttgart
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 38 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 38 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 38 km
1 h 50 m
€111-165
STR · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 38 km
1 h 15 m
€213-254
STR · 10 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
3 h 15 m
€194-322
1 stop
STR · 10 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 38 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 38 km
9 h 50 m
€683-756
FRA · 146 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

MeasureAnnecyStuttgart
Official languageFrenchGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation418 m245 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnnecyStuttgart
City population132,117633,484
People per km²1,9753,054
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre4459

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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.