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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Avignon or Bodrum?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Bodrum for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Bodrum’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, Bodrum 80: Bodrum leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Bodrum 60: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Bodrum 45: Avignon leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Bodrum 65: Bodrum leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Bodrum 60: Avignon leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Bodrum 72: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Bodrum 66: Bodrum leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Bodrum 42: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Bodrum 45: Bodrum leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Bodrum 38: Avignon leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Bodrum 32: Avignon leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Bodrum 52: Bodrum leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Bodrum.

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

Bodrum
55match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Bodrum in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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.

Bodrum's temperatures are measured 43 km from the centre, at Kos Airport.

Bodrum 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). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonBodrum
Official languageFrenchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBodrum
City population92,188175,000
People per km²1,420314
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.