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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Avignon or Buenos Aires?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Buenos Aires for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Buenos Aires’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, Buenos Aires 7: Avignon leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Buenos Aires 71: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Buenos Aires 95: Buenos Aires leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Buenos Aires 38: Avignon leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Buenos Aires 60: Avignon leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Buenos Aires 52: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Avignon and Buenos Aires are level on 62.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Buenos Aires 60: Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Buenos Aires 55: Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Buenos Aires 28: Avignon leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Buenos Aires.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and shopping 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

Buenos Aires in July

15 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 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). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonBuenos Aires
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation10 m25 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBuenos Aires
City population92,1883,121,707
People per km²1,42015,355
Museums within 10 km1176
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.