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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The cathedral from the gardens, Malaga
MalagaThe cathedral from the gardens

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Malaga by Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Avignon or Malaga?

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
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Malaga for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Malaga’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, Malaga 77: Malaga leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Malaga 68: Malaga leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Malaga 65: Avignon leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Malaga 62: Malaga leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Malaga 73: Malaga leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Malaga 87: Avignon leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Malaga 70: Malaga leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Malaga 70: Malaga leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Malaga 55: Malaga leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Malaga 55: Malaga leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Malaga 45: Avignon leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Malaga 42: Malaga leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Malaga.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips with your weighting.

Malaga
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Malaga in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 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). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonMalaga
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 m18 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)8 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonMalaga
City population92,188599,063
People per km²1,4201,517
Museums within 10 km1132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. 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.