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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Avignon?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Adelaide for

  • beaches
  • families
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Adelaide’s own page.

Choose Avignon for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Avignon’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Adelaide 68, Avignon 22: Adelaide leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Avignon 57: Adelaide leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Avignon 69: Avignon leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Avignon 30: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Avignon 70: Avignon leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Avignon 92: Avignon leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Avignon 45: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Avignon 62: Avignon leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Avignon 38: Adelaide leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Avignon 44: Avignon leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Avignon 68: Avignon leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Avignon 35: Adelaide leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Avignon.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Avignon
53match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Avignon in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
24 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Avignon has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Avignon's sunshine is measured 65 km from the centre, at Marseille / Marignane.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Avignon: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Avignon / Morières-lès-Avignon (8.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideAvignon
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m10 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideAvignon
City population1,387,29092,188
People per km²1,0711,420
Museums within 10 km1311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months-

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.