VacationSelector

Avignon or Rotterdam?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
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.

AvignonRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
AvignonRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance55 km24 km
Water distance—24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 28 points.28
AvignonRotterdam
Score4472
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1846
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 5 points.5
AvignonRotterdam
Score5560
Museums within 10 km1741
Museums within 2 km of centre1620
Share of museums within 2 km %9449
Unesco sites within 50 km65
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 33 points.33
AvignonRotterdam
Score1649
Drinking venues within 4 km115542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8470
Nightclubs within 4 km440
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 2 points.2
AvignonRotterdam
Score4442
Protected land share 50 km %3610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km23 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 20 points.20
AvignonRotterdam
Score4262
Tourist attractions within 2 km1527
Park area within 2 km23 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km48
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 11 points.11
AvignonRotterdam
Score4051
Notable places within 2 km4074
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 4 points.4
AvignonRotterdam
Score6258
Price level global73.779.2
Daily budget€160€181
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 14 points.14
AvignonRotterdam
Score7056
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months20
0255075100

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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€197-225
1 stop
MPL · 80 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 136 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 136 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
AlgiersALG
1 h 35 m
€100-103
MRS · 65 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 113 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureAvignonRotterdam
Official languageFrenchDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonRotterdam
City population92,188664,311
People per km²1,4202,080
Museums within 10 km1140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65
Distinct cuisines in the centre3677
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.