VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Marseille?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Marseille
57
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

CopenhagenMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 13 points.13
CopenhagenMarseille
Score5467
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km1764
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenMarseille
Score7375
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3739
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 25 points.25
CopenhagenMarseille
Score7550
Museums within 10 km8333
Museums within 2 km of centre5123
Share of museums within 2 km %6170
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 19 points.19
CopenhagenMarseille
Score6748
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5883
Nightclubs within 4 km6430
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 13 points.13
CopenhagenMarseille
Score5037
Protected land share 50 km %515
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %3956
Park area within 2 km138 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 27 points.27
CopenhagenMarseille
Score7144
Tourist attractions within 2 km5417
Park area within 2 km138 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 16 points.16
CopenhagenMarseille
Score7458
Notable places within 2 km273111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 10 points.10
CopenhagenMarseille
Score5262
Price level global87.873.7
Daily budget€214€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 20 points.20
CopenhagenMarseille
Score5575
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenMarseille
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
€107-166
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
€214-241
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
NantesNTE
2 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
7 h 45 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

MeasureCopenhagenMarseille
Official languageDanishFrench
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m0 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenMarseille
City population667,099886,040
People per km²7,3393,683
Museums within 10 km7227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8293
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.