VacationSelector

Avignon or Brussels?

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.

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AvignonBrussels
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Brussels are level on 0.
AvignonBrussels
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance55 km56 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 37 points.37
AvignonBrussels
Score4481
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3361,779
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1844
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 25 points.25
AvignonBrussels
Score5580
Museums within 10 km17120
Museums within 2 km of centre1659
Share of museums within 2 km %9449
Unesco sites within 50 km610
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 52 points.52
AvignonBrussels
Score1668
Drinking venues within 4 km1151,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97862
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8461
Nightclubs within 4 km484
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 13 points.13
AvignonBrussels
Score4431
Protected land share 50 km %366
Landscape blanket share 50 km %311
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 14 points.14
AvignonBrussels
Score4256
Tourist attractions within 2 km1528
Park area within 2 km23 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 33 points.33
AvignonBrussels
Score4073
Notable places within 2 km40254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 2 points.2
AvignonBrussels
Score6260
Price level global73.776.2
Daily budget€160€180
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 13 points.13
AvignonBrussels
Score7057
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C6.1 °C to 23.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm47 mm to 90 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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonBrussels
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 43 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 11 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

MeasureAvignonBrussels
Official languageFrenchFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m70 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBrussels
City population92,188195,546
People per km²1,4205,908
Museums within 10 km11105
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km610
Distinct cuisines in the centre36109

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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.