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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Avignon or Glasgow?

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
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Glasgow’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, Glasgow 14: Avignon leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Glasgow 52: Avignon leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Glasgow 62: Avignon leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Glasgow 76: Avignon leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Glasgow 58: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Glasgow 46: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Glasgow 28: Avignon leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

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

Glasgow in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
4 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.

Glasgow 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.

Glasgow's sunshine is measured 90 km from the centre, at Eskdalemuir.

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). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonGlasgow
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m21 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonGlasgow
City population92,188626,410
People per km²1,420190
Museums within 10 km1129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.