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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Avignon or Valencia?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Valencia 68: Avignon leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Valencia 60: Avignon leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Valencia 70: Avignon leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Valencia 55: Avignon leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Valencia 42: Valencia leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Valencia.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonValencia
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m15 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonValencia
City population92,188840,792
People per km²1,4206,242
Museums within 10 km1145
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
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.