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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier, Virginia Beach
Virginia BeachThe beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Virginia Beach by SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Avignon or Virginia Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Virginia Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Virginia Beach’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, Virginia Beach 77: Virginia Beach leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Virginia Beach 42: Avignon leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Virginia Beach 30: Avignon leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Virginia Beach 37: Virginia Beach leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Virginia Beach 56: Avignon leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Virginia Beach 64: Avignon leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Virginia Beach 75: Virginia Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Virginia Beach 27: Avignon leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Virginia Beach 32: Avignon leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Virginia Beach 40: Avignon leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Virginia Beach 38: Avignon leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Virginia Beach 32: Avignon leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Virginia Beach.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Virginia Beach
46match

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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Virginia Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
152 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AvignonVirginia Beach

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). Virginia Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Virginia Beach / Gatewood Park (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonVirginia Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m7 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsNorfolk International Airport (ORF)20 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonVirginia Beach
City population92,188459,470
People per km²1,420-
Museums within 10 km112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.