VacationSelector

Avignon or Sofia?

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 with your weighting.

Sofia
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AvignonSofia
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Sofia are level on 0.
AvignonSofia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance55 km214 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sofia leads by 20 points.20
AvignonSofia
Score4464
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1828
Museums & heritage. Sofia leads by 2 points.2
AvignonSofia
Score5557
Museums within 10 km1751
Museums within 2 km of centre1640
Share of museums within 2 km %9478
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 45 points.45
AvignonSofia
Score1661
Drinking venues within 4 km115958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8463
Nightclubs within 4 km4102
Nature & day trips. Sofia leads by 7 points.7
AvignonSofia
Score4451
Protected land share 50 km %3612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %314
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Sofia leads by 13 points.13
AvignonSofia
Score4255
Tourist attractions within 2 km1520
Park area within 2 km23 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Sofia leads by 17 points.17
AvignonSofia
Score4057
Notable places within 2 km40104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 37 points.37
AvignonSofia
Score6299
Price level global73.721.4
Daily budget€160€77
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 6 points.6
AvignonSofia
Score7064
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm36 mm to 78 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
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sofia
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonSofia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€123-230
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 8 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

MeasureAvignonSofia
Official languageFrenchBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m560 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonSofia
City population92,1881,213,134
People per km²1,4202,466
Museums within 10 km1142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre3651

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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. 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.