VacationSelector

Avignon or Cork?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Avignon
✓ Best match
41
match

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

Cork
38
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.

AvignonCork
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
AvignonCork
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance55 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. Cork leads by 6 points.6
AvignonCork
Score4450
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336224
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1835
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 32 points.32
AvignonCork
Score5523
Museums within 10 km1710
Museums within 2 km of centre168
Share of museums within 2 km %9480
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Cork leads by 22 points.22
AvignonCork
Score1638
Drinking venues within 4 km115361
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8481
Nightclubs within 4 km49
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 8 points.8
AvignonCork
Score4452
Protected land share 50 km %36—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10074
Park area within 2 km23 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 15 points.15
AvignonCork
Score4227
Tourist attractions within 2 km157
Park area within 2 km23 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Avignon leads by 18 points.18
AvignonCork
Score4022
Notable places within 2 km4014
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 5 points.5
AvignonCork
Score6257
Price level global73.780.2
Daily budget€160€187
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 21 points.21
AvignonCork
Score7049
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C8.3 °C to 18.6 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm78 mm to 140 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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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cork
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
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
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). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonCork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 136 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
FaroFAO
2 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 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

MeasureAvignonCork
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonCork
City population92,188222,333
People per km²1,4205,961
Museums within 10 km115
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre3649
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.