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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Avignon or Victoria Falls?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Avignon leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Victoria Falls 24: Avignon leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Victoria Falls 12: Avignon leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Victoria Falls 8: Avignon leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Victoria Falls 22: Avignon leads by 70 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Victoria Falls 38: Avignon leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Victoria Falls 45: Avignon leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Victoria Falls 18: Avignon leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Victoria Falls 32: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Victoria Falls 10: Avignon leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Victoria Falls 34: Avignon leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

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

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AvignonVictoria Falls

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). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonVictoria Falls
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112999
Elevation10 m961 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonVictoria Falls
City population92,18833,060
People per km²1,420-
Museums within 10 km112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60

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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.