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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License.

Avignon or Beijing?

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

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Beijing for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Beijing’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, Beijing 6: Avignon leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Beijing 81: Beijing leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Beijing 93: Beijing leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Beijing 58: Beijing leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Beijing 60: Avignon leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Beijing 85: Avignon leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Beijing 64: Beijing leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Beijing 69: Beijing leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Beijing 72: Beijing leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon and Beijing are level on 68.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Beijing 55: Beijing leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Beijing.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on shopping and nightlife 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
15 hdaylight a day

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 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

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). Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre).

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 centre126 non-stop destinationsBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 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

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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. 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.