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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Avignon or Tunis?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Tunis 33: Tunis leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Tunis 45: Avignon leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Tunis 77: Avignon leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Tunis 38: Avignon leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Tunis 48: Avignon leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Tunis 38: Avignon leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Tunis.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and beaches 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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonTunis
Official languageFrenchArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonTunis
City population92,188602,560
People per km²1,4202,834
Museums within 10 km1116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.