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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Castelvecchio and Ponte Scaligero over the Adige, Verona
VeronaCastelvecchio and Ponte Scaligero over the Adige

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Verona by NorbertNagel, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Avignon or Verona?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Verona for

  • beaches
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Verona’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, Verona 44: Verona leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Verona 66: Verona leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Verona 76: Verona leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Verona 37: Verona leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Verona 65: Avignon leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Avignon and Verona are level on 92.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Verona 66: Verona leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Verona 68: Verona leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Verona 52: Verona leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Verona 46: Verona leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Verona 66: Avignon leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Verona 48: Verona leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Verona.

Your match

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

Avignon
53match

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

Verona
Best match
61match

Wins on beaches and families 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
15 hdaylight a day

Verona in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonVerona
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 m59 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonVerona
City population92,188255,588
People per km²1,4201,285
Museums within 10 km1118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.