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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Avignon or Salt Lake City?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Avignon leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Salt Lake City 40: Avignon leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Salt Lake City 42: Avignon leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Avignon and Salt Lake City are level on 30.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Salt Lake City 34: Avignon leads by 58 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Salt Lake City 42: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Salt Lake City 36: Avignon leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Salt Lake City 40: Avignon leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Salt Lake City 55: Avignon leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Salt Lake City 38: Salt Lake City leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

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

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors 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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 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.

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). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonSalt Lake City
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m1,288 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonSalt Lake City
City population92,188199,723
People per km²1,420690
Museums within 10 km1112
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.