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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Nyhavn, Copenhagen
CopenhagenNyhavn

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Copenhagen by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Avignon or Copenhagen?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Copenhagen for

  • families
  • shopping
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Copenhagen’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, Copenhagen 40: Copenhagen leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Copenhagen 76: Copenhagen leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Copenhagen 72: Copenhagen leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Copenhagen 60: Copenhagen leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Copenhagen 45: Avignon leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Copenhagen 72: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Copenhagen 85: Copenhagen leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Copenhagen 85: Copenhagen leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Copenhagen 70: Copenhagen leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Copenhagen 18: Avignon leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon and Copenhagen are level on 68.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Copenhagen 55: Copenhagen leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Copenhagen.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Copenhagen
Best match
62match

Wins on families 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

Copenhagen in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
17 °Csea
17 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). Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonCopenhagen
Official languageFrenchDanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Danish Krone (DKK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCEFK230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m14 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre196 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonCopenhagen
City population92,188667,099
People per km²1,4207,339
Museums within 10 km1172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.