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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License.

Avignon or Mexico City?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Mexico City for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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, Mexico City 5: Avignon leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Mexico City 90: Mexico City leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Mexico City 88: Mexico City leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Mexico City 80: Mexico City leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Mexico City 50: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Mexico City 75: Avignon leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Mexico City 58: Mexico City leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Mexico City 50: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Mexico City 76: Mexico City leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Mexico City 72: Mexico City leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Mexico City 40: Mexico City leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Mexico City.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Mexico City
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and shopping 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
15 hdaylight a day

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
13 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). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonMexico City
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m2,240 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonMexico City
City population92,1889,209,944
People per km²1,4206,202
Museums within 10 km11108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km66

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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. 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.

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.