VacationSelector

Avignon or Venice?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Avignon
41
match

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

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AvignonVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
AvignonVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance55 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Venice leads by 1 points.1
AvignonVenice
Score4445
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1810
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 17 points.17
AvignonVenice
Score5572
Museums within 10 km1757
Museums within 2 km of centre1645
Share of museums within 2 km %9479
Unesco sites within 50 km65
Nightlife. Venice leads by 19 points.19
AvignonVenice
Score1635
Drinking venues within 4 km115342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8489
Nightclubs within 4 km43
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 27 points.27
AvignonVenice
Score4417
Protected land share 50 km %364
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km23 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 15 points.15
AvignonVenice
Score4257
Tourist attractions within 2 km1572
Park area within 2 km23 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 43 points.43
AvignonVenice
Score4083
Notable places within 2 km40464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 6 points.6
AvignonVenice
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 4 points.4
AvignonVenice
Score7066
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months22
0255075100

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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromAvignonVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasureAvignonVenice
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m2 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonVenice
City population92,188250,369
People per km²1,420602
Museums within 10 km1152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65
Distinct cuisines in the centre3646
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Avignon or Venice somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.