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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License.

Avignon or Bergen?

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
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Bergen for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Bergen’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, Bergen 20: Avignon leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Bergen 47: Avignon leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Bergen 55: Avignon leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Bergen 40: Bergen leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Bergen 88: Bergen leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Bergen 38: Avignon leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Bergen 60: Bergen leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Bergen 74: Bergen leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Bergen 33: Avignon leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Bergen 12: Avignon leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Bergen 58: Avignon leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Bergen 32: Avignon leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Bergen.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Bergen
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Bergen in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 °Csea
18 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). Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonBergen
Official languageFrenchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation10 m5 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBergen
City population92,188291,189
People per km²1,4203,339
Museums within 10 km1131
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.