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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The SkyWheel by the beach, Myrtle Beach
Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel by the beach

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Myrtle Beach by The ed17, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Avignon or Myrtle Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Myrtle Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Myrtle Beach’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, Myrtle Beach 84: Myrtle Beach leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Myrtle Beach 38: Avignon leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Myrtle Beach 20: Avignon leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Myrtle Beach 42: Myrtle Beach leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Myrtle Beach 46: Avignon leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Myrtle Beach 50: Avignon leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Myrtle Beach 80: Myrtle Beach leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Myrtle Beach 18: Avignon leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon and Myrtle Beach are level on 38.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Myrtle Beach 52: Myrtle Beach leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Myrtle Beach 30: Avignon leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Myrtle Beach 28: Avignon leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Myrtle Beach.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Myrtle Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Myrtle Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
172 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 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.

Myrtle Beach 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.

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). Myrtle Beach: 1971-2000 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonMyrtle Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m8 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsMyrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)5 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonMyrtle Beach
City population92,18835,682
People per km²1,420591
Museums within 10 km112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.