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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License.

Avignon or Bled?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Bled for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Bled’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, Bled 50: Bled leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Bled 20: Avignon leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Bled 22: Avignon leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Bled 5: Avignon leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Bled 86: Bled leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Bled 70: Avignon leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Bled 60: Bled leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Bled 58: Avignon leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Bled 5: Avignon leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Bled 45: Bled leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Bled 5: Avignon leads by 63 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Bled 55: Bled leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Bled.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

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

Bled
40match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Bled in July

27 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
154 mmrain in the month
8 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.

Bled's temperatures are measured 36 km from the centre, at Klagenfurt.

Bled 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). Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonBled
Official languageFrenchSlovene
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 m501 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBled
City population92,1884,969
People per km²1,42026
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.