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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Avignon or Chengdu?

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
  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Chengdu for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Chengdu’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, Chengdu 5: Avignon leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Chengdu 86: Chengdu leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Chengdu 60: Avignon leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Chengdu 68: Chengdu leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Chengdu 68: Avignon leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Chengdu 80: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Chengdu 65: Chengdu leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Chengdu 74: Chengdu leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Chengdu 64: Chengdu leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Chengdu 50: Avignon leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Chengdu 58: Chengdu leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Chengdu.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and prices 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

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
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). Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonChengdu
Official languageFrenchPutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation10 m500 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonChengdu
City population92,18820,937,757
People per km²1,4201,456
Museums within 10 km1110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60

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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.