VacationSelector

Avignon or Los Angeles?

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 value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

AvignonLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
AvignonLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance55 km
Water distance
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 22 points.22
AvignonLos Angeles
Score4466
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3361,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1822
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 6 points.6
AvignonLos Angeles
Score5549
Museums within 10 km1769
Museums within 2 km of centre1623
Share of museums within 2 km %9433
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 38 points.38
AvignonLos Angeles
Score1654
Drinking venues within 4 km115660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8465
Nightclubs within 4 km464
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 18 points.18
AvignonLos Angeles
Score4462
Protected land share 50 km %3626
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km23 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 9 points.9
AvignonLos Angeles
Score4233
Tourist attractions within 2 km1511
Park area within 2 km23 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 14 points.14
AvignonLos Angeles
Score4054
Notable places within 2 km4088
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 19 points.19
AvignonLos Angeles
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 17 points.17
AvignonLos Angeles
Score7087
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm0 mm to 76 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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonLos Angeles
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
12 h 0 m
€570-646
LAX · 19 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

MeasureAvignonLos Angeles
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m106 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonLos Angeles
City population92,1883,898,747
People per km²1,4202,994
Museums within 10 km1138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre3646
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.