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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
La Major cathedral from the harbour, Marseille
MarseilleLa Major cathedral from the harbour

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Marseille by Charlotte Noblet, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Marseille?

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 Adelaide for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Marseille for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Marseille’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. Adelaide 68, Marseille 72: Marseille leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Marseille 67: Adelaide leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Marseille 63: Marseille leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Marseille 57: Marseille leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Marseille 83: Marseille leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Marseille 86: Marseille leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Marseille 50: Adelaide leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Adelaide and Marseille are level on 57.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Marseille 47: Marseille leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Marseille 45: Marseille leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Marseille 56: Adelaide leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Marseille 37: Adelaide leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Marseille.

Your match

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

Adelaide
56match

Wins on families and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Marseille
Best match
60match

Wins on day trips and 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.

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Marseille in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AdelaideMarseille

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideMarseille
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m0 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre126 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideMarseille
City population1,387,290886,040
People per km²1,0713,683
Museums within 10 km1327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months2 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Adelaide or Marseille somewhere new.

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.