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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Arequipa 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 Arequipa for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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

Choose Avignon for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

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. Arequipa 8, Avignon 22: Avignon leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Avignon 57: Arequipa leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Avignon 69: Avignon leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Avignon 30: Arequipa leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Avignon 70: Arequipa leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Avignon 92: Avignon leads by 62 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Avignon 45: Avignon leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Avignon 62: Avignon leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Avignon 38: Arequipa leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Avignon 44: Arequipa leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Avignon 68: Avignon leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Avignon 35: Avignon leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Avignon.

Your match

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

Arequipa
46match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Avignon in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
24 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
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

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 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

MeasureArequipaAvignon
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaFrench
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation2,335 m10 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaAvignon
City population1,008,29092,188
People per km²1,5511,420
Museums within 10 km311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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. 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.