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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Avignon or Seville?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Seville for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Seville’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, Seville 18: Avignon leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Seville 73: Seville leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Seville 82: Seville leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Seville 62: Seville leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Seville 52: Avignon leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Seville 80: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Seville 55: Seville leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Seville 72: Seville leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Seville 55: Seville leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Seville 58: Seville leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon and Seville are level on 68.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Seville 40: Seville leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Seville.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on nightlife and shopping 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

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine 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). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonSeville
Official languageFrenchSpanish
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
Elevation10 m18 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonSeville
City population92,188689,423
People per km²1,4204,896
Museums within 10 km1124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61

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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. 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.