VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Avignon?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Avignon
41
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AmsterdamAvignon
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamAvignon
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km331
Coast distance24 km55 km
Water distance24 km—
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 39 points.39
AmsterdamAvignon
Score8344
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4418
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 25 points.25
AmsterdamAvignon
Score8055
Museums within 10 km9817
Museums within 2 km of centre6916
Share of museums within 2 km %7094
Unesco sites within 50 km56
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 54 points.54
AmsterdamAvignon
Score7016
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543115
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,07897
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7084
Nightclubs within 4 km1144
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 16 points.16
AmsterdamAvignon
Score6044
Protected land share 50 km %2136
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 26 points.26
AmsterdamAvignon
Score6842
Tourist attractions within 2 km7415
Park area within 2 km49 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 28 points.28
AmsterdamAvignon
Score6840
Notable places within 2 km19640
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 4 points.4
AmsterdamAvignon
Score5862
Price level global79.273.7
Daily budget€181€160
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 13 points.13
AmsterdamAvignon
Score5770
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C11.2 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm34 mm to 111 mm
Dry months02
0255075100

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.

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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamAvignon
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€188-239
AMS · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€203-231
AMS · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 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

MeasureAmsterdamAvignon
Official languageDutchFrench
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 number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m10 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamAvignon
City population921,46892,188
People per km²4,2081,420
Museums within 10 km10111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km56
Distinct cuisines in the centre9836
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.