VacationSelector

Avignon or Cardiff?

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 museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AvignonCardiff
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
AvignonCardiff
Score046
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km18
Coast distance55 km2 km
Water distance—2 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 16 points.16
AvignonCardiff
Score4460
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336541
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1832
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 16 points.16
AvignonCardiff
Score5539
Museums within 10 km1761
Museums within 2 km of centre166
Share of museums within 2 km %9410
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 32 points.32
AvignonCardiff
Score1648
Drinking venues within 4 km115536
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97395
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8474
Nightclubs within 4 km435
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 6 points.6
AvignonCardiff
Score4450
Protected land share 50 km %3618
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3115
Land share of disc %10068
Park area within 2 km23 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 10 points.10
AvignonCardiff
Score4232
Tourist attractions within 2 km154
Park area within 2 km23 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 5 points.5
AvignonCardiff
Score4045
Notable places within 2 km4051
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 8 points.8
AvignonCardiff
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 16 points.16
AvignonCardiff
Score7054
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C7.7 °C to 20.2 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm49 mm to 87 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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonCardiff
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
Puerto del RosarioFUE
3 h 30 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
Las PalmasLPA
3 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 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

MeasureAvignonCardiff
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m41 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonCardiff
City population92,188383,536
People per km²1,4202,734
Museums within 10 km119
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre3655
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.