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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Avignon or Nashville?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Nashville for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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, Nashville 14: Avignon leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Nashville 50: Avignon leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Nashville 46: Avignon leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Nashville 52: Avignon leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Nashville 30: Avignon leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Nashville 42: Nashville leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Nashville 30: Avignon leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Nashville 20: Avignon leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Nashville.

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.

Nashville
46match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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.

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). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonNashville
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m182 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonNashville
City population92,188689,447
People per km²1,420506
Museums within 10 km1112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60

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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.