VacationSelector

Avignon or Beijing?

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

Your match

Avignon
41
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families 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.

AvignonBeijing
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Beijing are level on 0.
AvignonBeijing
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance55 km145 km
Water distance——
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 8 points.8
AvignonBeijing
Score5563
Museums within 10 km1795
Museums within 2 km of centre1615
Share of museums within 2 km %9416
Unesco sites within 50 km66
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 9 points.9
AvignonBeijing
Score4435
Protected land share 50 km %363
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares143 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 35 points.35
AvignonBeijing
Score4277
Tourist attractions within 2 km1541
Park area within 2 km23 hectares143 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km412
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 10 points.10
AvignonBeijing
Score4050
Notable places within 2 km4069
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 17 points.17
AvignonBeijing
Score6279
Price level global73.749
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 4 points.4
AvignonBeijing
Score7066
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C2.2 °C to 31.8 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm3 mm to 163 mm
Dry months28
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
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromAvignonBeijing
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 55 m
€144-160
PKX · 45 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 45 m
€180-197
PKX · 45 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 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

MeasureAvignonBeijing
Official languageFrenchPutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation10 m43 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBeijing
City population92,18821,893,095
People per km²1,4201,334
Museums within 10 km1183
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km66
Distinct cuisines in the centre3629

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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. 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.