VacationSelector

Avignon or Sorrento?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Avignon
✓ Best match
41
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
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.

AvignonSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
AvignonSorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km178
Coast distance55 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Avignon leads by 25 points.25
AvignonSorrento
Score4419
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km185
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 18 points.18
AvignonSorrento
Score5537
Museums within 10 km177
Museums within 2 km of centre164
Share of museums within 2 km %9457
Unesco sites within 50 km65
Nightlife. Sorrento leads by 6 points.6
AvignonSorrento
Score1622
Drinking venues within 4 km115179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8473
Nightclubs within 4 km42
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 21 points.21
AvignonSorrento
Score4423
Protected land share 50 km %367
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km23 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 37 points.37
AvignonSorrento
Score425
Tourist attractions within 2 km152
Park area within 2 km23 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Avignon leads by 30 points.30
AvignonSorrento
Score4010
Notable places within 2 km407
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 6 points.6
AvignonSorrento
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 3 points.3
AvignonSorrento
Score7073
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm17 mm to 159 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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonSorrento
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
NAP · 30 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

MeasureAvignonSorrento
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m50 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonSorrento
City population92,18815,407
People per km²1,4201,541
Museums within 10 km115
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65
Distinct cuisines in the centre3611
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.