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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Johannesburg by K, Pexels License.

Avignon or Johannesburg?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Johannesburg for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Johannesburg’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, Johannesburg 5: Avignon leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Johannesburg 56: Avignon leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Johannesburg 62: Johannesburg leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Johannesburg 55: Avignon leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Johannesburg 52: Avignon leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Johannesburg 42: Avignon leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Johannesburg 18: Avignon leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Johannesburg 72: Johannesburg leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Johannesburg 55: Avignon leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Johannesburg 28: Avignon leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Johannesburg.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Johannesburg
47match

Wins on nightlife and prices 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
15 hdaylight a day

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
11 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). Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonJohannesburg
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m1,753 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre84 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonJohannesburg
City population92,1884,803,262
People per km²1,4202,922
Museums within 10 km1114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.