VacationSelector

Avignon or Seattle?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
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.

AvignonSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
AvignonSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1100
Coast distance55 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 31 points.31
AvignonSeattle
Score4475
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3361,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1835
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 19 points.19
AvignonSeattle
Score5536
Museums within 10 km1728
Museums within 2 km of centre1617
Share of museums within 2 km %9461
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 41 points.41
AvignonSeattle
Score1657
Drinking venues within 4 km115873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8480
Nightclubs within 4 km434
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 4 points.4
AvignonSeattle
Score4440
Protected land share 50 km %369
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km23 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 4 points.4
AvignonSeattle
Score4246
Tourist attractions within 2 km1517
Park area within 2 km23 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 12 points.12
AvignonSeattle
Score4052
Notable places within 2 km4076
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 19 points.19
AvignonSeattle
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 9 points.9
AvignonSeattle
Score7061
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months23
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Seattle
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonSeattle
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
YYJ · 142 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

MeasureAvignonSeattle
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m40 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonSeattle
City population92,188737,015
People per km²1,4201,996
Museums within 10 km1127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre3678
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.