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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Avignon or Dublin?

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
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose Dublin for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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, Dublin 27: Dublin leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Dublin 50: Avignon leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Dublin 64: Avignon leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Dublin 62: Dublin leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon and Dublin are level on 70.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Dublin 72: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Dublin 57: Dublin leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Dublin 66: Dublin leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Dublin 54: Dublin leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Dublin 20: Avignon leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Dublin 65: Avignon leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Dublin 25: Avignon leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Dublin.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Avignon
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Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Dublin
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Wins on nightlife 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

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °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). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonDublin
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 m20 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonDublin
City population92,188592,713
People per km²1,4205,154
Museums within 10 km1140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
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.