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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Haedong Yonggungsa temple on the rocks by the sea, Busan
BusanHaedong Yonggungsa temple on the rocks by the sea

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Busan by Andrea De Santis, Pexels License.

Avignon or Busan?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Busan for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Busan’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, Busan 68: Busan leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Busan 72: Busan leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Busan 52: Avignon leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Busan 60: Busan leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Busan 74: Busan leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Busan 74: Avignon leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Busan 70: Busan leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Busan 68: Busan leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Busan 60: Busan leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Busan 56: Busan leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Busan 42: Avignon leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Busan 78: Busan leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Busan.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips with your weighting.

Busan
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Busan in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
352 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 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). Busan: 1991-2020 normals, Pusan (9.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonBusan
Official languageFrenchKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation10 m30 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsGimhae International Airport (PUS)12 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBusan
City population92,1883,453,198
People per km²1,4204,486
Museums within 10 km117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
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. 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.