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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Palm Springs

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Avignon or Palm Springs?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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, Palm Springs 7: Avignon leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Palm Springs 40: Avignon leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Palm Springs 42: Avignon leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Palm Springs 36: Palm Springs leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Palm Springs 38: Avignon leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Palm Springs 40: Avignon leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Palm Springs 22: Avignon leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Palm Springs 44: Palm Springs leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Palm Springs 32: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Palm Springs 40: Avignon leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Palm Springs.

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.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 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.

Palm Springs 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). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonPalm Springs
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m146 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonPalm Springs
City population92,18844,575
People per km²1,420181
Museums within 10 km113
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.