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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0.

Avignon or Puerto Plata?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Puerto Plata for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’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, Puerto Plata 80: Puerto Plata leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Puerto Plata 40: Avignon leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Puerto Plata 35: Avignon leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Puerto Plata 38: Puerto Plata leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Puerto Plata 68: Avignon leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Puerto Plata 48: Avignon leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Puerto Plata 57: Puerto Plata leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Puerto Plata 30: Avignon leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Puerto Plata 30: Avignon leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Puerto Plata 64: Puerto Plata leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Puerto Plata 18: Avignon leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon and Puerto Plata are level on 35.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Puerto Plata.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 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.

Puerto Plata 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). Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonPuerto Plata
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m34 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonPuerto Plata
City population92,188-
People per km²1,420-
Museums within 10 km111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.