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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License.

Avignon or Cork?

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

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Cork for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’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, Cork 25: Cork leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Cork 58: Cork leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Cork 40: Avignon leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Cork 40: Cork leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Cork 62: Avignon leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Cork 68: Avignon leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Cork 50: Cork leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Cork 58: Avignon leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Cork 40: Cork leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Cork 33: Avignon leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Cork 45: Avignon leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Cork 22: Avignon leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Cork.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Cork
45match

Wins on nightlife and families 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

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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.

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

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 centre126 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 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
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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.