VacationSelector

Avignon or Bilbao?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Bilbao
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

AvignonBilbao
Beaches & swimming. Bilbao leads by 31 points.31
AvignonBilbao
Score031
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance55 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 18 points.18
AvignonBilbao
Score4462
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336840
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1826
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 17 points.17
AvignonBilbao
Score5538
Museums within 10 km1725
Museums within 2 km of centre1612
Share of museums within 2 km %9448
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 42 points.42
AvignonBilbao
Score1658
Drinking venues within 4 km115869
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97730
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8484
Nightclubs within 4 km450
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 9 points.9
AvignonBilbao
Score4453
Protected land share 50 km %3611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km23 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 5 points.5
AvignonBilbao
Score4247
Tourist attractions within 2 km1517
Park area within 2 km23 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 12 points.12
AvignonBilbao
Score4052
Notable places within 2 km4079
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 9 points.9
AvignonBilbao
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Avignon and Bilbao are level on 70.
AvignonBilbao
Score7070
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C13.5 °C to 26.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm53 mm to 170 mm
Dry months20
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
Bilbao
14
14
17
18
21
24
25
26
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonBilbao
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 35 m
€77-114
BIO · 5 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
SevillaSVQ
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 5 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

MeasureAvignonBilbao
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m19 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBilbao
City population92,188351,124
People per km²1,4208,440
Museums within 10 km1117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre3654
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.