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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0.

Avignon or Punta Cana?

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

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

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

Choose Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’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, Punta Cana 94: Punta Cana leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Punta Cana 30: Avignon leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Punta Cana 8: Avignon leads by 61 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Punta Cana 40: Punta Cana leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Punta Cana 52: Avignon leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Punta Cana 35: Avignon leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Punta Cana 68: Punta Cana leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Punta Cana 15: Avignon leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Punta Cana 30: Avignon leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Avignon and Punta Cana are level on 44.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Punta Cana 15: Avignon leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Punta Cana 52: Punta Cana leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Punta Cana.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 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.

Punta Cana 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). Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonPunta Cana
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 m28 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonPunta Cana
City population92,188138,919
People per km²1,420292
Museums within 10 km110
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.