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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Avignon or Palermo?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Palermo for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Palermo’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, Palermo 77: Palermo leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Palermo 58: Palermo leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Palermo 84: Avignon leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Palermo 44: Avignon leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Palermo 50: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Palermo 44: Palermo leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Palermo 62: Avignon leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Palermo 30: Avignon leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Palermo.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

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

Palermo in July

29 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 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.

Palermo 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.

Palermo's sunshine is measured 67 km from the centre, at Ustica.

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). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

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 centre126 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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.