VacationSelector

Avignon or New York?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Avignon
41
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AvignonNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
AvignonNew York
Score064
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km117
Coast distance55 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 51 points.51
AvignonNew York
Score4495
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3366,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1838
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 5 points.5
AvignonNew York
Score5560
Museums within 10 km17119
Museums within 2 km of centre1631
Share of museums within 2 km %9426
Unesco sites within 50 km62
Nightlife. New York leads by 73 points.73
AvignonNew York
Score1689
Drinking venues within 4 km1154,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre972,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8448
Nightclubs within 4 km4192
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 5 points.5
AvignonNew York
Score4439
Protected land share 50 km %364
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10069
Park area within 2 km23 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 30 points.30
AvignonNew York
Score4272
Tourist attractions within 2 km1537
Park area within 2 km23 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km47
Sights concentration. New York leads by 34 points.34
AvignonNew York
Score4074
Notable places within 2 km40268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 19 points.19
AvignonNew York
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 12 points.12
AvignonNew York
Score7058
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm74 mm to 112 mm
Dry months20
0255075100

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.

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Daytime high, °C
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
New York
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonNew York
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 15 m
€229-272
LGA · 13 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureAvignonNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonNew York
City population92,1888,804,190
People per km²1,4207,256
Museums within 10 km11157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre36132
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.