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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind, Queenstown
QueenstownThe wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Queenstown by Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Avignon or Queenstown?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Queenstown for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Queenstown’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, Queenstown 20: Avignon leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Queenstown 45: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Queenstown 12: Avignon leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Queenstown 42: Queenstown leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Queenstown 97: Queenstown leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Queenstown 50: Avignon leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Queenstown 60: Queenstown leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Queenstown 45: Avignon leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Queenstown 28: Avignon leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Queenstown 20: Avignon leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Queenstown 14: Avignon leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Queenstown 42: Queenstown leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Queenstown.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Queenstown
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
15 hdaylight a day

Queenstown in July

6 °Cdaytime high
-1 °Cnight-time low
115 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
9 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.

Queenstown has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Queenstown: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAvignonQueenstown
Official languageFrenchEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyEuro (EUR)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number112111
Elevation10 m324 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsQueenstown Airport (ZQN)7 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonQueenstown
City population92,18829,000
People per km²1,420-
Museums within 10 km110
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.