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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Avignon or Kotor?

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
  • food and drink
  • day trips

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Kotor’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, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Kotor 37: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Kotor 55: Avignon leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Avignon and Kotor are level on 30.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Kotor 72: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Kotor 36: Avignon leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Kotor 48: Avignon leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Kotor 20: Avignon leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Kotor 20: Avignon leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Kotor 24: Avignon leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Kotor.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on beaches 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Kotor 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.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

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). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonKotor
Official languageFrenchMontenegrin
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonKotor
City population92,188562
People per km²1,420-
Museums within 10 km113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.