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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Avignon or Montego Bay?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Montego Bay 50: Avignon leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Montego Bay 28: Avignon leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Montego Bay 42: Montego Bay leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Montego Bay 65: Avignon leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Montego Bay 50: Avignon leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Montego Bay 48: Montego Bay leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Montego Bay 20: Avignon leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Montego Bay 25: Avignon leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Montego Bay 38: Avignon leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Montego Bay 32: Avignon leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Montego Bay 45: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Montego Bay
44match

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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonMontego Bay
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation10 m19 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonMontego Bay
City population92,188123,994
People per km²1,420-
Museums within 10 km110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.