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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Avignon or Montevideo?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Avignon and Montevideo are level on 57.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Montevideo 54: Avignon leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Montevideo 34: Avignon leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Montevideo 55: Avignon leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Montevideo 54: Avignon leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Montevideo 36: Avignon leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Montevideo 42: Avignon leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Montevideo 57: Avignon leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Montevideo 38: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Montevideo.

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 nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 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). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonMontevideo
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m41 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonMontevideo
City population92,1881,302,954
People per km²1,4201,785
Museums within 10 km1136
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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.