VacationSelector

Avignon or Florence?

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 nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AvignonFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Florence are level on 0.
AvignonFlorence
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance55 km78 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Florence leads by 15 points.15
AvignonFlorence
Score4459
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3361,299
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1815
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 27 points.27
AvignonFlorence
Score5582
Museums within 10 km17132
Museums within 2 km of centre1693
Share of museums within 2 km %9470
Unesco sites within 50 km64
Nightlife. Florence leads by 40 points.40
AvignonFlorence
Score1656
Drinking venues within 4 km115818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97599
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8473
Nightclubs within 4 km434
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 6 points.6
AvignonFlorence
Score4438
Protected land share 50 km %369
Landscape blanket share 50 km %312
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares86 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 10 points.10
AvignonFlorence
Score4252
Tourist attractions within 2 km1530
Park area within 2 km23 hectares86 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 35 points.35
AvignonFlorence
Score4075
Notable places within 2 km40292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 6 points.6
AvignonFlorence
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 2 points.2
AvignonFlorence
Score7068
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C10.8 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months22
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonFlorence
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 70 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

MeasureAvignonFlorence
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m50 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonFlorence
City population92,188360,930
People per km²1,4203,528
Museums within 10 km11140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km64
Distinct cuisines in the centre3662

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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. 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.