VacationSelector

Avignon or Ghent?

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

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AvignonGhent
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
AvignonGhent
Score026
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km18
Coast distance55 km32 km
Water distance32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
AvignonGhent
Score4470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1849
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 3 points.3
AvignonGhent
Score5558
Museums within 10 km1724
Museums within 2 km of centre1620
Share of museums within 2 km %9483
Unesco sites within 50 km65
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 33 points.33
AvignonGhent
Score1649
Drinking venues within 4 km115570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8478
Nightclubs within 4 km426
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 10 points.10
AvignonGhent
Score4434
Protected land share 50 km %367
Landscape blanket share 50 km %314
Land share of disc %10087
Park area within 2 km23 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 8 points.8
AvignonGhent
Score4250
Tourist attractions within 2 km1519
Park area within 2 km23 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 6 points.6
AvignonGhent
Score4046
Notable places within 2 km4055
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 2 points.2
AvignonGhent
Score6260
Price level global73.776.2
Daily budget€160€180
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 14 points.14
AvignonGhent
Score7056
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months21
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonGhent
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 56 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 56 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

MeasureAvignonGhent
Official languageFrenchFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m12 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonGhent
City population92,188272,657
People per km²1,4201,728
Museums within 10 km1130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65
Distinct cuisines in the centre3683
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.