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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Budapest by Perituss, CC0.

Avignon or Budapest?

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

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Budapest for

  • wellness
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Budapest’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, Budapest 25: Budapest leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Budapest 63: Budapest leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Budapest 80: Budapest leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Budapest 78: Budapest leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Budapest 58: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Budapest 68: Avignon leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Budapest 62: Budapest leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Budapest 78: Budapest leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Budapest 55: Budapest leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Budapest 62: Budapest leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Budapest 76: Budapest leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Budapest 98: Budapest leads by 63 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Budapest.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on wellness 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
15 hdaylight a day

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 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). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonBudapest
Official languageFrenchHungarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Forint (HUF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m117 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBudapest
City population92,1881,675,777
People per km²1,4203,191
Museums within 10 km1181
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.