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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Massachusetts State House, Boston
BostonThe Massachusetts State House

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Boston by Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Avignon or Boston?

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

  • prices
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Boston for

  • families
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Boston’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, Boston 35: Boston leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Boston 64: Boston leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Boston 72: Boston leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Boston 47: Boston leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Boston 60: Avignon leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Boston 72: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Boston 72: Boston leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Boston 70: Boston leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Boston 55: Boston leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Boston 18: Avignon leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Boston 72: Boston leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Boston 30: Avignon leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Boston.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Boston
Best match
56match

Wins on families 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

Boston in July

28 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
18 °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.

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). Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonBoston
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 m43 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBoston
City population92,188675,647
People per km²1,4202,910
Museums within 10 km1151
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.