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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Avignon or Hiroshima?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Hiroshima leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Hiroshima 60: Avignon leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Hiroshima 62: Avignon leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Hiroshima 80: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Hiroshima 38: Avignon leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on nightlife and families 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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonHiroshima
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m3 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonHiroshima
City population92,1881,198,021
People per km²1,4201,324
Museums within 10 km1118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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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.