Annecy
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About
Annecy is the prefecture and largest city of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Why visit
Visit Annecy for music, theater, and performance, markets, streets, food, and public squares, landscape, water, gardens, and nearby routes. In Annecy, the strongest material is where museums, streets, religious buildings, markets, performance spaces, food, or nearby landscapes explain the surrounding region. A good itinerary should stay selective. A good route in Annecy begins with one serious site and adds smaller stops only when they clarify the same area. The result is a day in Annecy that can be followed, remembered, and adjusted. Day trips from Annecy work best when they change the reader's understanding of the base, not just the mileage.
When to avoid
Do not visit Annecy expecting every useful stop to be close together or easy to improvise. In Annecy, opening hours, transport, weather, crowds, and distance can shape the day more than the list of sights. In Annecy, it is better to build a tight route than to rely on long transfers between secondary stops. If the main interest is one nearby site, it may be better to treat Annecy as a base rather than the whole destination.
Spring (March to May)
The warmer period in Annecy generally falls in June through August. Warm weather in Annecy can be useful, but humidity and storms may decide the pace. Longer days in Annecy help, but they do not make scattered plans better. In Annecy, outdoor sites work best in cooler hours, with museums, libraries, cafes, religious buildings, and transit breaks holding the day together.
Winter Season (Dec-Feb)
December through February are the cooler or wetter period in Annecy. Winter in Annecy is often a useful cultural season if the itinerary is built around interiors and shorter outdoor sections. In Annecy, comfort depends less on temperature alone than on rain, wind, snow, daylight, and whether services are reduced. Annecy can still be rewarding in this period if interiors and compact walks carry the day. A cold or wet day in Annecy works best with shorter walks, confirmed hours, and a clear way back to lodging.
The next week in Annecy
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Showers
10° / 6°
12.5 mm
Sat
Showers
13° / 4°
2.3 mm
UV Moderate
Sun
Fog
16° / 3°
UV High
Mon
Showers
13° / 9°
5.7 mm
UV High
Tue
Fog
16° / 6°
UV High
Wed
Rain
22° / 11°
0.6 mm
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
29° / -2°
Typical high / low
4 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.9h
06:04 – 20:58local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Annecy
5 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Annecy Meythet airport (NCY) at 4 km.
Getting around Annecy
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
VectareAlpbus FournierLEXSIBRAFlixBus-euDB Regio AG NRWNeckar-DonauBlaBlaCar BusFlixBus-deFlixBus-deFlixBus-deTrenitalia FranceSNCF VoyageursB MetroNS IntRUMILLY - J'ybusREGION - cars Région Haute-SavoieGoVoltaMansfelder BergwerksbahnTrains Express Régionaux
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
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Le Palais de I'Île
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Marché du boulevard Taine
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Restaurant Plein Sud
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Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC BY-SA 4.0, Chabe01.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.