VacationSelector

Calgary or Marseille?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 67 points.67
CalgaryMarseille
Score067
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km464
Coast distance649 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 9 points.9
CalgaryMarseille
Score6675
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7491,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3639
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 41 points.41
CalgaryMarseille
Score950
Museums within 10 km833
Museums within 2 km of centre323
Share of museums within 2 km %3870
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 4 points.4
CalgaryMarseille
Score4448
Drinking venues within 4 km465544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7483
Nightclubs within 4 km1930
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 1 points.1
CalgaryMarseille
Score3637
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km142 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Marseille leads by 3 points.3
CalgaryMarseille
Score4144
Tourist attractions within 2 km317
Park area within 2 km142 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 19 points.19
CalgaryMarseille
Score3958
Notable places within 2 km37111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 8 points.8
CalgaryMarseille
Score5462
Price level global8473.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 18 points.18
CalgaryMarseille
Score5775
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm11 mm to 82 mm
Dry months86
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryMarseille
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 25 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCalgaryMarseille
Official languageFrench, EnglishFrench
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m0 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryMarseille
City population1,306,784886,040
People per km²1,5833,683
Museums within 10 km1327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6793
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.