VacationSelector

Avignon or Porto?

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 with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
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.

AvignonPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
AvignonPorto
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km152
Coast distance55 km4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 24 points.24
AvignonPorto
Score4468
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3361,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1827
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 16 points.16
AvignonPorto
Score5571
Museums within 10 km17101
Museums within 2 km of centre1657
Share of museums within 2 km %9456
Unesco sites within 50 km63
Nightlife. Porto leads by 42 points.42
AvignonPorto
Score1658
Drinking venues within 4 km115900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8463
Nightclubs within 4 km438
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 11 points.11
AvignonPorto
Score4433
Protected land share 50 km %367
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km23 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 23 points.23
AvignonPorto
Score4265
Tourist attractions within 2 km15122
Park area within 2 km23 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 14 points.14
AvignonPorto
Score4054
Notable places within 2 km4085
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 12 points.12
AvignonPorto
Score6274
Price level global73.755.9
Daily budget€160€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 1 points.1
AvignonPorto
Score7071
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months23
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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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
1 h 40 m
€54-173
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasureAvignonPorto
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m104 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonPorto
City population92,188231,800
People per km²1,4205,599
Museums within 10 km1142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Distinct cuisines in the centre3670
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.