VacationSelector

Avignon or Inverness?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Avignon
✓ Best match
41
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Inverness
25
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AvignonInverness
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
AvignonInverness
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance55 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Avignon leads by 23 points.23
AvignonInverness
Score4421
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1811
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 35 points.35
AvignonInverness
Score5520
Museums within 10 km176
Museums within 2 km of centre165
Share of museums within 2 km %9483
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Avignon leads by 1 points.1
AvignonInverness
Score1615
Drinking venues within 4 km115113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9798
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8487
Nightclubs within 4 km44
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 35 points.35
AvignonInverness
Score449
Protected land share 50 km %3612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3111
Land share of disc %10088
Park area within 2 km23 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 42 points.42
AvignonInverness
Score420
Tourist attractions within 2 km153
Park area within 2 km23 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Avignon leads by 16 points.16
AvignonInverness
Score4024
Notable places within 2 km4016
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 8 points.8
AvignonInverness
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 18 points.18
AvignonInverness
Score7052
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm40 mm to 72 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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonInverness
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 35 m
€114-174
MRS · 65 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 136 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
BristolBRS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BZR · 136 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
Las PalmasLPA
3 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 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

MeasureAvignonInverness
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 m7 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonInverness
City population92,18847,380
People per km²1,4202,289
Museums within 10 km113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre3615
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.