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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The beach with its parasols and the boardwalk, Bethany Beach
Bethany BeachThe beach with its parasols and the boardwalk

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Bethany Beach by Doug Olson, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Avignon or Bethany Beach?

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

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

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

Choose Bethany Beach for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Bethany Beach’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, Bethany Beach 72: Bethany Beach leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Bethany Beach 35: Avignon leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Bethany Beach 10: Avignon leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Bethany Beach 12: Avignon leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Bethany Beach 48: Avignon leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Bethany Beach 45: Avignon leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Bethany Beach 66: Bethany Beach leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Bethany Beach 33: Avignon leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Bethany Beach 28: Avignon leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Bethany Beach 30: Avignon leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Bethany Beach 14: Avignon leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Bethany Beach 33: Avignon leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Bethany Beach.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Bethany Beach
36match

Wins on beaches 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

Bethany Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
95 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
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.

Bethany Beach's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Salisbury / Quail Ridge.

Bethany Beach 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.

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). Bethany Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Salisbury / Quail Ridge (44.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonBethany Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m3 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)45 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBethany Beach
City population92,188954
People per km²1,420318
Museums within 10 km110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.