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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Avignon or Daytona Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Daytona Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Daytona Beach’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, Daytona Beach 80: Daytona Beach leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Daytona Beach 36: Avignon leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Daytona Beach 30: Avignon leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Daytona Beach 40: Daytona Beach leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Daytona Beach 56: Avignon leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Daytona Beach 66: Avignon leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Daytona Beach 60: Daytona Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Daytona Beach 18: Avignon leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Daytona Beach 27: Avignon leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Daytona Beach 46: Daytona Beach leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Daytona Beach 30: Avignon leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Daytona Beach 30: Avignon leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Daytona Beach.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches 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

Daytona Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
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). Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonDaytona Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonDaytona Beach
City population92,18872,647
People per km²1,420440
Museums within 10 km116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-9 months

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.