Annecy or Turin?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.
Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.
What matters to you?
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The verdict
Choose Annecy if the trip is built around water and open country: 9 beaches nearby, 20% of the surrounding land protected, and theme parks in reach for children.
Choose Turin if you want a city on foot: many more museums, restaurants and bars close to the centre, warmer days across the year, and plenty to look at between stops.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Annecy and Turin are level on 0.
| Annecy | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 9 | 1 |
| Coast distance | 260 km | 105 km |
| Water distance | — | — |
Places to eat. Turin leads by 18 points.18
| Annecy | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 46 | 64 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 343 | 1,198 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 20 | 21 |
Museums & heritage. Turin leads by 38 points.38
| Annecy | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 30 | 68 |
| Museums within 10 km | 9 | 65 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 5 | 39 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 56 | 60 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 2 | 4 |
Nightlife. Turin leads by 46 points.46
| Annecy | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 20 | 66 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 140 | 1,375 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 120 | 768 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 86 | 56 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 6 | 57 |
Nature & day trips. Annecy leads by 3 points.3
| Annecy | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 36 | 33 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 20 | 6 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 19 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 48 hectares | 72 hectares |
Good for families. Turin leads by 24 points.24
| Annecy | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 29 | 53 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 4 | 36 |
| Park area within 2 km | 48 hectares | 72 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 3 | 0 |
Sights concentration. Turin leads by 32 points.32
| Annecy | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 23 | 55 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 15 | 92 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Turin leads by 6 points.6
| Annecy | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 62 | 68 |
| Price level global | 73.7 | 64.9 |
| Daily budget | €160 | €155 |
Year-round weather. Turin leads by 5 points.5
| Annecy | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 59 | 64 |
| Monthly daytime high | 5.1 °C to 26.8 °C | 7.1 °C to 28.5 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 55 mm to 94 mm | 44 mm to 127 mm |
| Dry months | 0 | 0 |
Where they differ
Annecy leads outdoors. 20% of the land around it is protected against 6% around Turin, and it has 9 beaches nearby where Turin has 1. It also has 3 theme parks within reach, where Turin has none.
Turin is the stronger city break: many times as many museums, 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against 2, and far more notable places within walking distance of the centre. It also has about three times as many restaurants near the centre, and many times as many bars and clubs.
Where they are alike
Neither is a swimming destination. Both sit inland, neither has a month with sea at 21°C or more, and water is incidental to either trip rather than the reason for it.
They are also close on day trips, weather and price level. Both have countryside and parks in reach without either dominating, summers are warm in both, at 27°C and 29°C, winter days stay above freezing, and the two national price estimates sit close together. Neither has a month at 40mm of rain or less.
Which traveller are you?
Families are the closest call. Annecy has 3 theme parks within reach and 9 beaches nearby; Turin has no theme parks but many more attractions near the centre and roughly twice the park space.
Walkers and anyone planning days out of town should take Annecy: 20% of the surrounding land is protected against 6% around Turin, though the two are otherwise similar on day trips.
Museum-goers, and anyone who eats and drinks their way through a city, should take Turin: many times as many museums and bars, about three times as many restaurants near the centre, and most of it reachable on foot.
What the numbers don't tell you
The daily budget figures, €160 for Annecy's country and €155 for Turin's, are national estimates of restaurant and hotel prices, not measurements of either city. A large city can sit well above its own national average, by more than the gap between these two, so neither figure says which trip costs more.
No weather station near Turin records sunshine hours, so that figure is missing rather than low, and Turin's monthly weather rests on temperature and rainfall alone; Annecy's 1927 hours a year has no counterpart to be read against, so that side of the comparison is unmeasured.
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). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).
Annecy is at its best from June to August, when highs run 24-27°C. It also holds the drier side of early autumn: September brings 87mm against Turin's 116mm, on days of about 21°C.
Turin runs warmer through the same stretch and is drier at the height of summer, with July reaching 29°C on 57mm. Winter is the other case for Turin: highs of 7-9°C at the turn of the year, on 44-54mm, when Annecy is both colder and wetter.
Getting there
| Flying from | Annecy | Turin |
|---|---|---|
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 35 m €91-200 GVA · 38 km | 1 h 45 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 8 h 0 m no fares GVA · 38 km | 8 h 15 m €542-635 1 stop MXP · 103 km |
| RomeFCO, CIA | 1 h 30 m no fares GVA · 38 km | 1 h 15 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 1 h 10 m €104-203 GVA · 38 km | 1 h 20 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| BarcelonaBCN | 1 h 25 m €65-78 GVA · 38 km | 1 h 25 m €36-129 TRN · 14 km |
| CataniaCTA | 2 h 5 m no fares GVA · 38 km | 1 h 55 m €41-129 TRN · 14 km |
| AmsterdamAMS | 1 h 30 m €160-186 GVA · 38 km | 1 h 40 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| PortoOPO | 2 h 10 m €127-171 1 stop GVA · 38 km | 2 h 20 m €136 TRN · 14 km |
| BeijingPEK, PKX | 10 h 20 m no fares GVA · 38 km | 10 h 10 m €710-815 1 stop MXP · 103 km |
| DubaiDXB, DWC | 6 h 25 m €318-351 1 stop GVA · 38 km | 6 h 10 m €375-563 MXP · 103 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 | Turin |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | French | Italian |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CE230 V, 50 Hz | CFL230 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 | 239 m |
| Main airport | Geneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre140 non-stop destinations | Turin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre63 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Annecy | Turin |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 132,117 | 841,600 |
| People per km² | 1,975 | 6,474 |
| Museums within 10 km | 1 | 72 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 2 | 4 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 44 | 78 |
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