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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The golden Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
JerusalemThe golden Dome of the Rock

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Jerusalem by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Avignon or Jerusalem?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Jerusalem for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Jerusalem’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, Jerusalem 40: Jerusalem leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Jerusalem 66: Jerusalem leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Jerusalem 92: Jerusalem leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Jerusalem 38: Jerusalem leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Jerusalem 60: Avignon leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Jerusalem 80: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Jerusalem 52: Jerusalem leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Jerusalem 55: Avignon leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Jerusalem 48: Jerusalem leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Jerusalem 20: Avignon leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Jerusalem 40: Avignon leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Jerusalem 42: Jerusalem leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Jerusalem.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Avignon
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Wins on live music and the arts and prices with your weighting.

Jerusalem
53match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches 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

Jerusalem in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °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.

Jerusalem 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.

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). Jerusalem: 1991-2020 normals, Jerusalem (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonJerusalem
Official languageFrenchHebrew
CurrencyEuro (EUR)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 100, fire 102
Elevation10 m754 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)42 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonJerusalem
City population92,1881,050,151
People per km²1,4208,374
Museums within 10 km1169
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km67
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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. 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.