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Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier
La Major cathedral from the harbour, Marseille
MarseilleLa Major cathedral from the harbour

Photos: Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Marseille by Charlotte Noblet, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Clearwater 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 Clearwater for

  • families
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Marseille for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • getting around

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. Clearwater 90, Marseille 72: Clearwater leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Clearwater 38, Marseille 67: Marseille leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Clearwater 18, Marseille 63: Marseille leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Clearwater 34, Marseille 57: Marseille leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Clearwater 55, Marseille 83: Marseille leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Clearwater 58, Marseille 86: Marseille leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Clearwater 78, Marseille 50: Clearwater leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Clearwater 28, Marseille 57: Marseille leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Clearwater 27, Marseille 47: Marseille leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Clearwater 35, Marseille 45: Marseille leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Clearwater 36, Marseille 56: Marseille leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Clearwater 40, Marseille 37: Clearwater leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Clearwater and Marseille.

Your match

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

Clearwater
45match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Marseille
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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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Where the figures come from

Clearwater has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureClearwaterMarseille
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m0 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre126 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureClearwaterMarseille
City population117,292886,040
People per km²1,1543,683
Museums within 10 km427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months2 months

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.