VacationSelector

Avignon or Strasbourg?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Strasbourg
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Avignon if you want warmth and heritage: highs reach 31°C in July, winters stay milder, and there are 6 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach.

Choose Strasbourg if you want a city to walk and eat in: far more restaurants and bars near the centre, more notable places within walking distance, and more park space close by.

Scoreboard

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

AvignonStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Strasbourg are level on 0.
AvignonStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance55 km398 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 23 points.23
AvignonStrasbourg
Score4467
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1836
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 14 points.14
AvignonStrasbourg
Score5541
Museums within 10 km1723
Museums within 2 km of centre1614
Share of museums within 2 km %9461
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Strasbourg leads by 20 points.20
AvignonStrasbourg
Score1636
Drinking venues within 4 km115305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8487
Nightclubs within 4 km417
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 10 points.10
AvignonStrasbourg
Score4454
Protected land share 50 km %3637
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3135
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 4 points.4
AvignonStrasbourg
Score4238
Tourist attractions within 2 km159
Park area within 2 km23 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 18 points.18
AvignonStrasbourg
Score4058
Notable places within 2 km40109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon and Strasbourg are level on 62.
AvignonStrasbourg
Score6262
Price level global73.773.7
Daily budget€160€160
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 7 points.7
AvignonStrasbourg
Score7063
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months23
0255075100

Where they differ

Avignon is the better base for heritage beyond the city, with 6 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Strasbourg's 1, and it has more tourist attractions near the centre plus 4 theme parks within reach against Strasbourg's 1.

Strasbourg has about twice as many restaurants near the centre and a much wider range of kitchens, about three times as many places to drink, and about three times as many notable places within walking distance of the centre.

Where they are alike

Neither is a swimming destination: neither has a month of sea at 21°C or more, and a summer trip to either is built around the city and the land around it rather than the coast.

They are also close on nature and on families. Just over a third of the land around each city is protected, 36% by Avignon and 37% by Strasbourg, and both make moderate family trips, one leaning on attractions, the other on parks.

Which traveller are you?

Anyone travelling to eat well and go out afterwards should pick Strasbourg: far more restaurants near the centre, a much wider range of kitchens, and considerably more places to drink, most of them walkable.

A heritage traveller willing to drive is better served by Avignon, which has 6 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Strasbourg's 1, even though Strasbourg holds somewhat more museums in the city itself.

Families face a closer call. Avignon has more tourist attractions near the centre and 4 theme parks within reach against Strasbourg's 1, while Strasbourg has far more park space for unplanned days.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information: both are priced off the same national figure, so nothing here says one is cheaper. The €160 a day beside them is a national estimate, not a measurement of either city.

Beach counts mislead here too. Strasbourg has more beaches nearby, but neither city is on the coast and neither has a month of sea at 21°C or more. Nor are the warm months the dry ones: Avignon's September stays warm while being its wettest, at 111mm, so a shoulder-season trip chosen on temperature alone can be a wet one.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Avignon is at its best in May and June, when highs run 24-28°C and rainfall sits at 44-58mm. Midsummer is hotter and drier still, at 31°C, if you can take the heat. September stays warm but turns wet, at 111mm, and the autumn is wet.

Strasbourg's window is narrower: June to August, at 24-26°C, is the only reliably warm stretch, and it is also when most of the rain falls. Spring is drier, closer to 40mm a month, and winter is cold, falling to 5-7°C.

Getting there

Flying fromAvignonStrasbourg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
AlgiersALG
1 h 35 m
€100-103
MRS · 65 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
TunisTUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
BastiaBIA
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureAvignonStrasbourg
Official languageFrenchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m132 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonStrasbourg
City population92,188293,771
People per km²1,4203,752
Museums within 10 km1121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre3687

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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.