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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License.

Avignon or Bangkok?

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 Avignon for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Bangkok for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Bangkok’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. Avignon 22, Bangkok 12: Avignon leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Bangkok 95: Bangkok leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Bangkok 80: Bangkok leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Bangkok 85: Bangkok leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Bangkok 25: Avignon leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Bangkok 72: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Bangkok 50: Bangkok leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Bangkok 50: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Bangkok 80: Bangkok leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Bangkok 85: Bangkok leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Bangkok 52: Avignon leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Bangkok 75: Bangkok leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Bangkok.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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. Avignon: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Avignon / Morières-lès-Avignon (8.6 km from centre). Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonBangkok
Official languageFrenchThai
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation10 m2 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBangkok
City population92,1885,676,648
People per km²1,4203,619
Museums within 10 km1159
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.