Avignon or Milan?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.
Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.
What matters to you?
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.
The verdict
Choose Milan if you want evenings out, a wide choice of restaurants and a centre with plenty within walking distance, plus the stronger option for children.
Choose Avignon if you want warmth and quiet: highs of 11-31°C across the year rather than 7-29°C, more protected countryside for day trips, and heritage reachable within a day.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Milan are level on 0.
| Avignon | Milan | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 1 | 4 |
| Coast distance | 55 km | 120 km |
| Water distance | — | — |
Places to eat. Milan leads by 26 points.26
| Avignon | Milan | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 44 | 70 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 336 | 1,991 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 18 | 20 |
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 19 points.19
| Avignon | Milan | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 55 | 74 |
| Museums within 10 km | 17 | 87 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 16 | 55 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 94 | 63 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 6 | 4 |
Nightlife. Milan leads by 59 points.59
| Avignon | Milan | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 16 | 75 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 115 | 2,215 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 97 | 961 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 84 | 43 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 4 | 70 |
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 21 points.21
| Avignon | Milan | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 44 | 65 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 36 | 30 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 31 | 11 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 23 hectares | 102 hectares |
Good for families. Milan leads by 35 points.35
| Avignon | Milan | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 42 | 77 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 15 | 76 |
| Park area within 2 km | 23 hectares | 102 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 4 | 5 |
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 34 points.34
| Avignon | Milan | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 40 | 74 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 40 | 266 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Milan leads by 6 points.6
| Avignon | Milan | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 62 | 68 |
| Price level global | 73.7 | 64.9 |
| Daily budget | €160 | €155 |
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 6 points.6
| Avignon | Milan | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 70 | 64 |
| Monthly daytime high | 11.2 °C to 31.2 °C | 7 °C to 28.6 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 34 mm to 111 mm | 44 mm to 127 mm |
| Dry months | 2 | 0 |
Where they differ
Avignon runs warmer, with daytime highs of 11-31°C against Milan's 7-29°C, and it has dry months at 40mm or less where Milan has none. More land around it is protected, 36% against 30%, and it reaches 6 UNESCO-listed places on a day trip against Milan's 4.
Milan has many times as many bars and clubs, far more notable places within walking distance of the centre, and much more for children: more attractions and park space near the centre, and more theme parks within reach.
Where they are alike
Neither is a place to swim. Milan has 4 beaches within reach and Avignon 1, and neither sees a month with sea at 21°C or more, so a swim means a deliberate trip out.
They also sit close on cost and on the shape of the year: the national daily budget estimates behind them are near each other, and both are warmest in July and coolest in January, so the seasonal calendar works the same way in both.
Which traveller are you?
If your evenings matter as much as your days, Milan: many times as many bars and clubs, and many times as many restaurants near the centre, though only about half its nightlife sits close in. Avignon's is concentrated but small.
Travelling with children, Milan again. Far more attractions and park space near the centre, and 5 theme parks within reach against Avignon's 4, with more of the sights close enough to walk between.
For museums in quantity, Milan. For a heritage trip built on day trips out, Avignon, which reaches 6 UNESCO-listed places against Milan's 4, in warmer weather and with more protected land around it.
What the numbers don't tell you
The daily budget figures, €160 and €155, are national estimates of restaurant and hotel price levels, not measurements of either city. Neither tells you what a week in Avignon or Milan actually costs, and a large, heavily visited city can sit far enough from its country's average to swamp a gap that small.
Warmth and dryness do not arrive together. Avignon's September stays at 26°C but is among its wettest months, and Milan's warm May comes with heavy rain. A month that looks good on temperature alone can still be one you spend indoors.
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).
Avignon is at its best in late spring and early summer, with highs of 24°C in May and 28°C in June and rain around 44-58mm. July is drier still at 34mm, though days reach 31°C. September stays warm but rain climbs above 110mm.
Milan peaks later, in July and August at 29°C and 28°C. Its spring is wetter, above 100mm in May, and autumn heavier still, with November the wettest month of its year, so late summer is the safer window.
Getting there
| Flying from | Avignon | Milan |
|---|---|---|
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 1 h 25 m €110-119 MRS · 65 km | 1 h 20 m €46-63 MXP · 40 km |
| IstanbulIST, SAW | 2 h 55 m €219-245 1 stop MRS · 65 km | 2 h 40 m €140-309 MXP · 40 km |
| MadridMAD | 1 h 35 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 2 h 0 m €63-91 MXP · 40 km |
| RomeFCO, CIA | 1 h 25 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 1 h 15 m €116-135 LIN · 7 km |
| BarcelonaBCN | 1 h 5 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 1 h 30 m €34-53 MXP · 40 km |
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 45 m no fares FNI · 38 km | 1 h 45 m €48-103 MXP · 40 km |
| AmsterdamAMS | 1 h 50 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 1 h 40 m €129-158 LIN · 7 km |
| LisbonLIS | 2 h 10 m €136-184 1 stop MRS · 65 km | 2 h 35 m €78-142 MXP · 40 km |
| MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX | 7 h 45 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 7 h 50 m no fares MXP · 40 km |
| SeoulICN, GMP | 11 h 35 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 11 h 5 m no fares MXP · 40 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
| Measure | Avignon | Milan |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | French | Italian |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CE230 V, 50 Hz | CFL230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 10 m | 138 m |
| Main airport | Marseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinations | Milan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Avignon | Milan |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 92,188 | 1,354,196 |
| People per km² | 1,420 | 7,453 |
| Museums within 10 km | 11 | 87 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 6 | 4 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 36 | 79 |
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