VacationSelector

Avignon or Istanbul?

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

Istanbul
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and 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.

AvignonIstanbul
Beaches & swimming. Istanbul leads by 43 points.43
AvignonIstanbul
Score043
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance55 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Istanbul leads by 26 points.26
AvignonIstanbul
Score4470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3362,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1820
Museums & heritage. Istanbul leads by 11 points.11
AvignonIstanbul
Score5566
Museums within 10 km17145
Museums within 2 km of centre1671
Share of museums within 2 km %9449
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Istanbul leads by 63 points.63
AvignonIstanbul
Score1679
Drinking venues within 4 km1152,266
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre971,176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8452
Nightclubs within 4 km4221
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 19 points.19
AvignonIstanbul
Score4425
Protected land share 50 km %361
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10048
Park area within 2 km23 hectares60 hectares
Good for families. Istanbul leads by 25 points.25
AvignonIstanbul
Score4267
Tourist attractions within 2 km1568
Park area within 2 km23 hectares60 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Istanbul leads by 35 points.35
AvignonIstanbul
Score4075
Notable places within 2 km40285
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Istanbul leads by 27 points.27
AvignonIstanbul
Score6289
Price level global73.735.2
Daily budget€160€100
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 1 points.1
AvignonIstanbul
Score7069
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C9.2 °C to 29.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm23 mm to 101 mm
Dry months24
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
Istanbul
9
10
12
17
22
27
30
30
26
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Istanbul
9
8
9
11
16
21
23
24
22
19
15
12
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Istanbul
74
74
66
47
29
29
23
29
43
85
79
101
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Istanbul
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Istanbul
3
3
5
6
9
10
11
10
7
5
4
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Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Istanbul: 1991-2020 normals, Istanbul / Goztepe (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonIstanbul
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
3 h 15 m
€141-223
IST · 36 km
AlgiersALG
1 h 35 m
€100-103
MRS · 65 km
3 h 20 m
€139-247
IST · 36 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 15 m
€54-87
SAW · 30 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 15 m
€161-174
IST · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
3 h 35 m
€110-186
IST · 36 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 50 m
€137-196
IST · 36 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
10 h 0 m
€533-647
IST · 36 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
IST · 36 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

MeasureAvignonIstanbul
Official languageFrenchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m100 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsİstanbul Airport (IST)36 km from centre345 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonIstanbul
City population92,18815,655,924
People per km²1,4202,930
Museums within 10 km1172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre3662
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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. 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.