Avignon or Como?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.
Wins on nightlife and value for money with your weighting.
What matters to you?
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.
The verdict
Choose Avignon if you want the warmer, drier year and the fuller day: daytime highs reach 31°C in July, there are theme parks within reach, more attractions near the centre and a wider range of kitchens.
Choose Como if your trip is built on walking and unhurried evenings in bars rather than on sights, and you can accept a cooler year, highs of 27°C at best, and rain in most months.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Como are level on 0.
| Avignon | Como | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 1 | 8 |
| Coast distance | 55 km | 156 km |
| Water distance | — | — |
Places to eat. Avignon leads by 19 points.19
| Avignon | Como | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 44 | 25 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 336 | 259 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 18 | 7 |
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 9 points.9
| Avignon | Como | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 55 | 46 |
| Museums within 10 km | 17 | 9 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 16 | 6 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 94 | 67 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 6 | 8 |
Nightlife. Como leads by 8 points.8
| Avignon | Como | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 16 | 24 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 115 | 213 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 97 | 143 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 84 | 67 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 4 | 1 |
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 4 points.4
| Avignon | Como | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 44 | 40 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 36 | 23 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 31 | 5 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 23 hectares | 15 hectares |
Good for families. Avignon leads by 27 points.27
| Avignon | Como | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 42 | 15 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 15 | 6 |
| Park area within 2 km | 23 hectares | 15 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 4 | 0 |
Sights concentration. Avignon leads by 10 points.10
| Avignon | Como | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 40 | 30 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 40 | 22 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Como leads by 6 points.6
| Avignon | Como | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 62 | 68 |
| Price level global | 73.7 | 64.9 |
| Daily budget | €160 | €155 |
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 12 points.12
| Avignon | Como | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 70 | 58 |
| Monthly daytime high | 11.2 °C to 31.2 °C | 7.1 °C to 27.3 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 34 mm to 111 mm | 61 mm to 178 mm |
| Dry months | 2 | 0 |
Where they differ
Avignon suits families better: about three times as many tourist attractions near the centre, twice as much park space, and 4 theme parks within reach where Como has none. It also has more restaurants near the centre, a much wider range of kitchens, and a warmer year, 11-31°C against 7-27°C, with 2 months at 40mm of rain or less where Como has none.
Como's edge is the evening: about twice as many places to drink, mostly near the centre, and 8 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Avignon's 6.
Where they are alike
Neither is a swimming destination. Como has 8 beaches nearby and Avignon 1, but in neither does the water reach 21°C in any month, so swimming is incidental to either trip rather than a reason to go.
Both sit close to protected countryside that carries the day trips, and both keep their drinking places near the centre, so evenings stay walkable. The national daily budget estimates behind the two are close, at €160 and €155.
Which traveller are you?
Travelling with children: Avignon, clearly. It has around three times as many attractions near the centre, twice as much park space, and 4 theme parks within reach, where Como offers none of that.
Museums and old streets: Avignon again, with roughly twice as many museums and twice as many notable places within walking distance of the centre. Como counters only on day trips, with 8 UNESCO-listed places in range against 6.
Late evenings: Como has about twice as many places to drink, all close to the centre, so nights are bar-led. Avignon has far more nightclubs if you want dancing rather than drinking.
What the numbers don't tell you
The daily budget figures, €160 and €155, are national estimates for the two countries, covering restaurant and hotel price levels, not measurements of either town. A heavily visited lakeside destination can sit well above its national average, so a gap this small tells you nothing about which trip will actually cost more.
Warm does not mean dry. Avignon's September keeps summer warmth but is its wettest month at 111mm, and Como's warmest months are also among its wettest, so picking on temperature alone can land you indoors. Como's lakeside beaches sit on water that never reaches 21°C.
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre).
Avignon's window runs May to September, warm and mostly dry, with July the driest month at 34mm and highs of 31°C. September is still warm but the wettest month at 111mm, and the rest of autumn stays wet.
Como is at its best in July and August, at 27°C, but rain runs above 150mm through most of the warm half of the year. Late winter is the driest stretch, though highs of 9-14°C make it walking weather rather than sitting-out weather.
Getting there
| Flying from | Avignon | Como |
|---|---|---|
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 1 h 25 m €110-119 MRS · 65 km | 1 h 20 m €46-63 MXP · 34 km |
| IstanbulIST, SAW | 2 h 55 m €219-245 1 stop MRS · 65 km | 2 h 40 m €140-309 MXP · 34 km |
| MadridMAD | 1 h 35 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 2 h 0 m €63-91 MXP · 34 km |
| RomeFCO, CIA | 1 h 25 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 1 h 15 m €116-135 LIN · 43 km |
| BarcelonaBCN | 1 h 5 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 1 h 30 m €34-53 MXP · 34 km |
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 45 m no fares FNI · 38 km | 1 h 45 m €48-103 MXP · 34 km |
| AmsterdamAMS | 1 h 50 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 1 h 40 m €129-158 LIN · 43 km |
| LisbonLIS | 2 h 10 m €136-184 1 stop MRS · 65 km | 2 h 35 m €78-142 MXP · 34 km |
| MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX | 7 h 45 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 7 h 50 m no fares MXP · 34 km |
| SeoulICN, GMP | 11 h 35 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 11 h 5 m no fares MXP · 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
| Measure | Avignon | Como |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | French | Italian |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CE230 V, 50 Hz | CFL230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 10 m | 201 m |
| Main airport | Marseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinations | Milan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Avignon | Como |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 92,188 | 83,184 |
| People per km² | 1,420 | 2,242 |
| Museums within 10 km | 11 | 9 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 6 | 8 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 36 | 22 |
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