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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Burj Al Arab, Dubai
DubaiThe Burj Al Arab

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Dubai by Aleksandar Pasaric, Pexels License.

Avignon or Dubai?

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

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Dubai for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubai’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, Dubai 80: Dubai leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Dubai 76: Dubai leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Dubai 40: Avignon leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Dubai 62: Dubai leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Dubai 25: Avignon leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Dubai 45: Avignon leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Dubai 82: Dubai leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Dubai 42: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Dubai 82: Dubai leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Dubai 32: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Dubai 40: Avignon leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Dubai 46: Dubai leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Dubai.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Avignon
53match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Dubai
54match

Wins on beaches 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

Dubai in July

42 °Cdaytime high
33 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
33 °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). Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonDubai
Official languageFrenchArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)UAE Dirham (AED)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre294 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonDubai
City population92,1883,944,751
People per km²1,420-
Museums within 10 km1114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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.