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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License.

Avignon or Huntington Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Huntington Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Huntington Beach’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, Huntington Beach 70: Huntington Beach leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Huntington Beach 46: Avignon leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Huntington Beach 14: Avignon leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Huntington Beach 38: Huntington Beach leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Huntington Beach 58: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Huntington Beach 63: Avignon leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Huntington Beach 82: Huntington Beach leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Huntington Beach 20: Avignon leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Huntington Beach 42: Huntington Beach leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Huntington Beach 28: Avignon leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Huntington Beach 33: Avignon leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Huntington Beach 36: Huntington Beach leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Huntington Beach.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Huntington Beach
44match

Wins on beaches 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

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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). Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonHuntington Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m12 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonHuntington Beach
City population92,188198,711
People per km²1,4202,406
Museums within 10 km113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.