VacationSelector

Avignon or Faro?

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

Your match

Avignon
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AvignonFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
AvignonFaro
Score061
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance55 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Avignon and Faro are level on 44.
AvignonFaro
Score4444
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1822
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 33 points.33
AvignonFaro
Score5522
Museums within 10 km179
Museums within 2 km of centre168
Share of museums within 2 km %9489
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Faro leads by 5 points.5
AvignonFaro
Score1621
Drinking venues within 4 km115143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8486
Nightclubs within 4 km48
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 13 points.13
AvignonFaro
Score4457
Protected land share 50 km %3611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km23 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 6 points.6
AvignonFaro
Score4236
Tourist attractions within 2 km1510
Park area within 2 km23 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Avignon leads by 18 points.18
AvignonFaro
Score4022
Notable places within 2 km4014
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 12 points.12
AvignonFaro
Score6274
Price level global73.755.9
Daily budget€160€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 13 points.13
AvignonFaro
Score7083
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months26
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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Daytime high, °C
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonFaro
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 136 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureAvignonFaro
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonFaro
City population92,18864,560
People per km²1,420319
Museums within 10 km112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre3634
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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.