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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Avignon or Sydney?

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

  • day trips
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Sydney for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Sydney 60: Avignon leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Sydney 85: Sydney leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Sydney 50: Avignon leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Sydney 22: Avignon leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Sydney 55: Sydney leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Sydney.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 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). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonSydney
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonSydney
City population92,1885,450,496
People per km²1,420449
Museums within 10 km1138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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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. 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.

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.