VacationSelector

Avignon or Bologna?

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 nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

AvignonBologna
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Bologna are level on 0.
AvignonBologna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance55 km74 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 14 points.14
AvignonBologna
Score4458
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336822
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1820
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 12 points.12
AvignonBologna
Score5567
Museums within 10 km1758
Museums within 2 km of centre1643
Share of museums within 2 km %9474
Unesco sites within 50 km63
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 37 points.37
AvignonBologna
Score1653
Drinking venues within 4 km115720
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97531
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8474
Nightclubs within 4 km430
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 5 points.5
AvignonBologna
Score4439
Protected land share 50 km %367
Landscape blanket share 50 km %311
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 13 points.13
AvignonBologna
Score4255
Tourist attractions within 2 km1532
Park area within 2 km23 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 20 points.20
AvignonBologna
Score4060
Notable places within 2 km40120
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
AvignonBologna
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 3 points.3
AvignonBologna
Score7067
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C7 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm34 mm to 75 mm
Dry months25
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
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). Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonBologna
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 55 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
CasablancaCMN
2 h 30 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 5 m
€180-238
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 138 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

MeasureAvignonBologna
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m54 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBologna
City population92,188387,971
People per km²1,4202,754
Museums within 10 km1166
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Distinct cuisines in the centre3662

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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. 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.