Avignon or Turin?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.
Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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 open country around the city: milder winters, highs reaching 31°C in July, and protected land making up 36% of the surroundings, with theme parks within reach for families.
Choose Turin if the trip is about eating, drinking and walking: far more restaurants and bars near the centre, more museums, and about twice as many notable places within walking distance of where you sleep.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Turin are level on 0.
| Avignon | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 1 | 1 |
| Coast distance | 55 km | 105 km |
| Water distance | — | — |
Places to eat. Turin leads by 20 points.20
| Avignon | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 44 | 64 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 336 | 1,198 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 18 | 21 |
Museums & heritage. Turin leads by 13 points.13
| Avignon | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 55 | 68 |
| Museums within 10 km | 17 | 65 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 16 | 39 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 94 | 60 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 6 | 4 |
Nightlife. Turin leads by 50 points.50
| Avignon | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 16 | 66 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 115 | 1,375 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 97 | 768 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 84 | 56 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 4 | 57 |
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 11 points.11
| Avignon | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 44 | 33 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 36 | 6 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 31 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 23 hectares | 72 hectares |
Good for families. Turin leads by 11 points.11
| Avignon | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 42 | 53 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 15 | 36 |
| Park area within 2 km | 23 hectares | 72 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 4 | 0 |
Sights concentration. Turin leads by 15 points.15
| Avignon | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 40 | 55 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 40 | 92 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Turin leads by 6 points.6
| Avignon | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 62 | 68 |
| Price level global | 73.7 | 64.9 |
| Daily budget | €160 | €155 |
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 6 points.6
| Avignon | Turin | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 70 | 64 |
| Monthly daytime high | 11.2 °C to 31.2 °C | 7.1 °C to 28.5 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 34 mm to 111 mm | 44 mm to 127 mm |
| Dry months | 2 | 0 |
Where they differ
Turin is the stronger city for evenings out, with many times as many places to drink and many times as many nightclubs. It also has about three times as many restaurants near the centre, a wider range of kitchens, and about twice as many notable places within walking distance.
Avignon answers outside the streets: 36% of the surrounding land is protected against 6% around Turin, and 4 theme parks lie within reach where Turin has none. It also has more UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach.
Where they are alike
Neither is a swimming destination. Each has 1 beach nearby, and neither records a month with the sea at 21°C or more, so a day by the water is an outing at best, not the reason to book.
Both are warmest in July and coolest in January, and neither offers reliable warmth outside the summer half of the year. Both sit in countries whose national daily budget estimates are close, at €160 and €155.
Which traveller are you?
Anyone whose evenings matter should take Turin: many times as many bars and clubs as Avignon, plus about three times as many restaurants near the centre and a wider range of kitchens.
Families with a car get more out of Avignon: 4 theme parks within reach where Turin has none, and 36% of the surrounding land protected against 6% around Turin, which makes for easy days out.
A short culture break favours Turin: about three times as many museums and about twice as many notable places within walking distance, so more of the trip happens on foot rather than by road.
What the numbers don't tell you
The daily budget figures, €160 and €155, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels, not measurements of Avignon or Turin. A heavily visited city can sit well off its own country's average, by more than the gap between the two figures, so neither is shown here to be the cheaper trip.
No weather station near Turin records sunshine hours, so that figure is absent rather than low; its monthly ratings rest on temperature, rainfall and sea temperature alone. And a beach nearby in both cases does not mean swimming: neither reaches 21°C in the sea.
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).
Avignon is the better pick in May and June, when highs of 24-28°C come with light rain. July is its driest month, 34mm, though the heat peaks at 31°C.
Turin holds up best from June to August, 26-29°C, with July the drier end of that run at 57mm. Its autumn is heavy going, up to 127mm in a month, and winter days stay cold, so a trip built on walking and eating out belongs in summer.
Getting there
| Flying from | Avignon | Turin |
|---|---|---|
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 1 h 25 m €110-119 MRS · 65 km | 1 h 20 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| RomeFCO, CIA | 1 h 25 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 1 h 15 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| IstanbulIST, SAW | 2 h 55 m €219-245 1 stop MRS · 65 km | 2 h 45 m €171-459 1 stop TRN · 14 km |
| CataniaCTA | 1 h 55 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 1 h 55 m €41-129 TRN · 14 km |
| MunichMUC | 1 h 35 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 1 h 15 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| MadridMAD | 1 h 35 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 1 h 55 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| PalermoPMO | 1 h 40 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 1 h 45 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| MarrakechRAK | 2 h 45 m no fares FNI · 38 km | 3 h 5 m no fares TRN · 14 km |
| MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX | 7 h 45 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 7 h 50 m no fares MXP · 103 km |
| SeoulICN, GMP | 11 h 35 m no fares MRS · 65 km | 11 h 5 m no fares MXP · 103 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
| Measure | Avignon | Turin |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | French | Italian |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CE230 V, 50 Hz | CFL230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 10 m | 239 m |
| Main airport | Marseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinations | Turin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre63 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Avignon | Turin |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 92,188 | 841,600 |
| People per km² | 1,420 | 6,474 |
| Museums within 10 km | 11 | 72 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 6 | 4 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 36 | 78 |
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