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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Avignon or Krakow?

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

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Krakow for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’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, Krakow 9: Avignon leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Krakow 55: Avignon leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Krakow 62: Avignon leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Krakow 76: Avignon leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Krakow 58: Krakow leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Krakow 48: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Krakow 55: Avignon leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Krakow 36: Krakow leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Krakow.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

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

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
16 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). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonKrakow
Official languageFrenchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m219 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonKrakow
City population92,188804,237
People per km²1,4202,459
Museums within 10 km11113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km64

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.