VacationSelector

Avignon or Limassol?

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 good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Limassol
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

AvignonLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
AvignonLimassol
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance55 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Avignon leads by 1 points.1
AvignonLimassol
Score4443
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1819
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 11 points.11
AvignonLimassol
Score5544
Museums within 10 km1717
Museums within 2 km of centre1610
Share of museums within 2 km %9459
Unesco sites within 50 km63
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 23 points.23
AvignonLimassol
Score1639
Drinking venues within 4 km115340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8475
Nightclubs within 4 km420
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 22 points.22
AvignonLimassol
Score4422
Protected land share 50 km %362
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10049
Park area within 2 km23 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 26 points.26
AvignonLimassol
Score4216
Tourist attractions within 2 km153
Park area within 2 km23 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Avignon leads by 26 points.26
AvignonLimassol
Score4014
Notable places within 2 km409
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 8 points.8
AvignonLimassol
Score6270
Price level global73.761.4
Daily budget€160€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 15 points.15
AvignonLimassol
Score7085
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months28
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 136 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
AthensATH
2 h 40 m
€160-212
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€123-230
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 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

MeasureAvignonLimassol
Official languageFrenchTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonLimassol
City population92,188107,970
People per km²1,4202,405
Museums within 10 km112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Distinct cuisines in the centre3628
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.