VacationSelector

Avignon or Tromso?

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 year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AvignonTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
AvignonTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km114
Coast distance55 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Avignon leads by 20 points.20
AvignonTromso
Score4424
Restaurants within 2 km of centre33685
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1816
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 32 points.32
AvignonTromso
Score5523
Museums within 10 km1710
Museums within 2 km of centre168
Share of museums within 2 km %9480
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Avignon leads by 9 points.9
AvignonTromso
Score167
Drinking venues within 4 km11567
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9761
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8491
Nightclubs within 4 km45
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 33 points.33
AvignonTromso
Score4411
Protected land share 50 km %369
Landscape blanket share 50 km %319
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km23 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 28 points.28
AvignonTromso
Score4214
Tourist attractions within 2 km159
Park area within 2 km23 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Avignon leads by 12 points.12
AvignonTromso
Score4028
Notable places within 2 km4020
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 8 points.8
AvignonTromso
Score6254
Price level global73.785.1
Daily budget€160€203
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 37 points.37
AvignonTromso
Score7033
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months20
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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
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonTromso
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€197-225
1 stop
MPL · 80 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 136 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€123-230
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureAvignonTromso
Official languageFrenchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation10 m20 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonTromso
City population92,18879,943
People per km²1,42032
Museums within 10 km118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre3623
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.