VacationSelector

Bangkok or Marseille?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money with your weighting.

Marseille
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BangkokMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 27 points.27
BangkokMarseille
Score4067
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km064
Coast distance23 km0 km
Water distance23 km0 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 8 points.8
BangkokMarseille
Score8375
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2639
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 4 points.4
BangkokMarseille
Score4650
Museums within 10 km10333
Museums within 2 km of centre3023
Share of museums within 2 km %2970
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 35 points.35
BangkokMarseille
Score8348
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4183
Nightclubs within 4 km7230
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 14 points.14
BangkokMarseille
Score5137
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %8356
Park area within 2 km42 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 13 points.13
BangkokMarseille
Score5744
Tourist attractions within 2 km3117
Park area within 2 km42 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 10 points.10
BangkokMarseille
Score4858
Notable places within 2 km62111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 31 points.31
BangkokMarseille
Score9362
Price level global29.773.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 19 points.19
BangkokMarseille
Score5675
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm11 mm to 82 mm
Dry months36
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.

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Daytime high, °C
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokMarseille
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 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

MeasureBangkokMarseille
Official languageThaiFrench
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m0 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokMarseille
City population5,676,648886,040
People per km²3,6193,683
Museums within 10 km5927
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9193
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.