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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Avignon or Belfast?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Belfast for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Belfast’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, Belfast 20: Avignon leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Belfast 50: Avignon leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Belfast 55: Avignon leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Belfast 50: Belfast leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Belfast 74: Belfast leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Belfast 66: Avignon leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Belfast 58: Belfast leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Avignon and Belfast are level on 62.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Belfast 45: Belfast leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Belfast 48: Belfast leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Belfast 55: Avignon leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Belfast 25: Avignon leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Belfast.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Avignon
53match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Belfast
51match

Wins on nightlife and families 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

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 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). Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonBelfast
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m3 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBelfast
City population92,188345,006
People per km²1,4203,000
Museums within 10 km118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.