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The Explanada de España, Alicante
AlicanteThe Explanada de España
The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral

Photos: Alicante by Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License; Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Alicante 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 Alicante for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Avignon for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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. Alicante 82, Avignon 22: Alicante leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Alicante 67, Avignon 57: Alicante leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Alicante 46, Avignon 69: Avignon leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Alicante 60, Avignon 30: Alicante leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alicante 63, Avignon 70: Avignon leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Alicante 72, Avignon 92: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Alicante 68, Avignon 45: Alicante leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Alicante 66, Avignon 62: Alicante leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Alicante 44, Avignon 38: Alicante leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Alicante 60, Avignon 44: Alicante leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alicante 37, Avignon 68: Avignon leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alicante 40, Avignon 35: Alicante leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alicante and Avignon.

Your match

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

Alicante
Best match
59match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Avignon
53match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

Alicante in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 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

MeasureAlicanteAvignon
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteAvignon
City population366,22192,188
People per km²1,8191,420
Museums within 10 km811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.