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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Avignon or West Palm 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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm 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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, West Palm Beach 52: Avignon leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, West Palm Beach 42: Avignon leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, West Palm Beach 36: West Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, West Palm Beach 58: Avignon leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, West Palm Beach 55: Avignon leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, West Palm Beach 38: Avignon leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, West Palm Beach 23: Avignon leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, West Palm Beach 47: Avignon leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and West Palm Beach.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and shopping 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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonWest Palm 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 m6 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonWest Palm Beach
City population92,188117,415
People per km²1,420786
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.