VacationSelector

Avignon or Palermo?

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 nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

AvignonPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
AvignonPalermo
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance55 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 6 points.6
AvignonPalermo
Score4450
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1813
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 5 points.5
AvignonPalermo
Score5550
Museums within 10 km1732
Museums within 2 km of centre1626
Share of museums within 2 km %9481
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 37 points.37
AvignonPalermo
Score1653
Drinking venues within 4 km115799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8464
Nightclubs within 4 km416
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 8 points.8
AvignonPalermo
Score4436
Protected land share 50 km %364
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km23 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 1 points.1
AvignonPalermo
Score4241
Tourist attractions within 2 km1516
Park area within 2 km23 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 17 points.17
AvignonPalermo
Score4057
Notable places within 2 km40104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 6 points.6
AvignonPalermo
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 7 points.7
AvignonPalermo
Score7077
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months27
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonPalermo
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 25 m
€92-140
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 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

MeasureAvignonPalermo
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m14 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonPalermo
City population92,188630,167
People per km²1,4203,924
Museums within 10 km1142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre3633
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.