VacationSelector

Avignon or York?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Avignon
41
match

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

York
41
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

AvignonYork
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and York are level on 0.
AvignonYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance55 km50 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. York leads by 10 points.10
AvignonYork
Score4454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1831
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 9 points.9
AvignonYork
Score5546
Museums within 10 km1718
Museums within 2 km of centre1616
Share of museums within 2 km %9489
Unesco sites within 50 km62
Nightlife. York leads by 27 points.27
AvignonYork
Score1643
Drinking venues within 4 km115450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8478
Nightclubs within 4 km414
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 11 points.11
AvignonYork
Score4433
Protected land share 50 km %3617
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3116
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km23 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 1 points.1
AvignonYork
Score4243
Tourist attractions within 2 km1513
Park area within 2 km23 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Avignon leads by 1 points.1
AvignonYork
Score4039
Notable places within 2 km4037
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 8 points.8
AvignonYork
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 14 points.14
AvignonYork
Score7056
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months21
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromAvignonYork
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AlgiersALG
1 h 35 m
€100-103
MRS · 65 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 35 m
€114-174
MRS · 65 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureAvignonYork
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m25 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonYork
City population92,188208,400
People per km²1,420766
Museums within 10 km1124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre3654

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Avignon or York 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.