SeasonMapAvignon weather by month
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The best time to visit Avignon is April, May and September — 91/100 in May, 24°C and 9 rainy days. The best season is spring, March to May (85/100 on average).
The worst month is December at 64/100 — cold, a little rain, clean air. See December →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
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Avignon, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Avignon is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
| Month | Score | Tier | High | Rain | Sun | Crowds | On |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JanJanuary | 67 | C | 11°C | 7 d | 7 h | Peak | 2 |
| FebFebruary | 73 | B | 14°C | 6 d | 8 h | Busy | 2 |
| MarMarch | 78 | B | 17°C | 7 d | 9 h | Busy | 1 |
| AprApril | 86 | A | 20°C | 8 d | 10 h | Busy | 1 |
| MayMay | 91 | S | 24°C | 9 d | 12 h | Busy | — |
| JunJune | 85 | A | 30°C | 6 d | 13 h | Shoulder | — |
| JulJuly | 82 | A | 33°C | 4 d | 13 h | Peak | 2 |
| AugAugust | 80 | A | 32°C | 3 d | 12 h | Busy | 1 |
| SepSeptember | 89 | A | 27°C | 6 d | 10 h | Busy | — |
| OctOctober | 81 | A | 22°C | 8 d | 8 h | Busy | — |
| NovNovember | 70 | B | 16°C | 10 d | 7 h | Quiet | 1 |
| DecDecember | 64 | C | 12°C | 9 d | 6 h | Peak | 2 |
What's on in Avignon through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
- January
- Cheval Passion14–18 Jan (usually)Festival
- February
- Les Hivernales dance festival3–21 Feb (usually)Festival
- July
- Festival d'Avignon and the Off4–26 Jul (usually)Festival
- Heatwave weeks1 Jul – 25 Aug (usually)Hazard
- November
- Christmas market20 Nov – 31 Dec (usually)Festival
- December
- The mistral1 Dec – 30 Apr (usually)Season
Crowds in Avignon in May
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
BusySpring holidays in France, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Good to know before you go to Avignon
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
Visas & entry
A guide to Avignon's Palace of the Popes recommends arriving right at opening, 9am March through October and 10am the rest of the year, to beat the crowds that build steadily through the day, and booking tickets online ahead of a summer visit specifically to skip the queue. Their strongest tip for actually understanding the space: rent the histopad, a digital guide that reconstructs what the palace looked like during its 14th-century height, since the mostly-bare Gothic halls otherwise give little sense of how opulent the building once was.