VacationSelector

Avignon or Manchester?

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 year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Manchester
✓ Best match
47
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.

AvignonManchester
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
AvignonManchester
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance55 km27 km
Water distance—27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 24 points.24
AvignonManchester
Score4468
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1835
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 13 points.13
AvignonManchester
Score5542
Museums within 10 km1723
Museums within 2 km of centre1611
Share of museums within 2 km %9448
Unesco sites within 50 km62
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 46 points.46
AvignonManchester
Score1662
Drinking venues within 4 km1151,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8477
Nightclubs within 4 km482
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 8 points.8
AvignonManchester
Score4436
Protected land share 50 km %3617
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3117
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km23 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 10 points.10
AvignonManchester
Score4232
Tourist attractions within 2 km155
Park area within 2 km23 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 8 points.8
AvignonManchester
Score4048
Notable places within 2 km4061
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 8 points.8
AvignonManchester
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 16 points.16
AvignonManchester
Score7054
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm51 mm to 95 mm
Dry months20
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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonManchester
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
AlgiersALG
1 h 35 m
€100-103
MRS · 65 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureAvignonManchester
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m38 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonManchester
City population92,188547,627
People per km²1,4204,737
Museums within 10 km1128
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre3663
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.