VacationSelector

Avignon or Madrid?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Avignon
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

AvignonMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Madrid are level on 0.
AvignonMadrid
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance55 km305 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 39 points.39
AvignonMadrid
Score4483
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3363,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1828
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 20 points.20
AvignonMadrid
Score5575
Museums within 10 km1797
Museums within 2 km of centre1659
Share of museums within 2 km %9461
Unesco sites within 50 km64
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 65 points.65
AvignonMadrid
Score1681
Drinking venues within 4 km1152,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre971,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8462
Nightclubs within 4 km4341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 19 points.19
AvignonMadrid
Score4463
Protected land share 50 km %3619
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 35 points.35
AvignonMadrid
Score4277
Tourist attractions within 2 km1561
Park area within 2 km23 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 35 points.35
AvignonMadrid
Score4075
Notable places within 2 km40288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 9 points.9
AvignonMadrid
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 2 points.2
AvignonMadrid
Score7072
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months27
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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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonMadrid
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureAvignonMadrid
Official languageFrenchSpanish
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 m663 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonMadrid
City population92,1883,506,730
People per km²1,4205,801
Museums within 10 km1188
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km64
Distinct cuisines in the centre36106

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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. 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.