Beach · Annecy, France

Lake Annecy

The cleanest large lake in Europe, swimmable from public beaches, with the Alps standing behind it.

Lake Annecy is in Annecy, and this is Annecy — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 590 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it half a day · Summer only · 45.855°N, 6.163°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

The TGV network makes Paris–Marseille three hours and Paris–Bordeaux two. All of France →

Up a level

Annecy · The Alps & the East · France

We do not hold opening hours, prices or a website for this

Those are the three fields that go stale fastest and the three you are most damaged by being wrong about, so this site does not carry them at all rather than carrying an unverified version. Check the operator or the municipality on the day. The estimate of how long to give it, and the season, are editorial judgements and are usually stable.

What happens here

Experiences tied to this place, and how each one is tied to it — standing on it, starting from it, or looking at it.

Swim in Lake Annecy

Fed by mountain springs and cleaned up by a 1960s sewer scheme that is now the textbook example; you can see the bottom at four metres.

Happens here

The record

What this atlas holds about Lake Annecy, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Beach
Give it: half a day
Season: Summer only
Where: 45.855°N, 6.163°E
In: Annecy