VacationSelector

Cork or Marseille?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

CorkMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 39 points.39
CorkMarseille
Score2867
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km164
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 25 points.25
CorkMarseille
Score5075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2241,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3539
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 27 points.27
CorkMarseille
Score2350
Museums within 10 km1033
Museums within 2 km of centre823
Share of museums within 2 km %8070
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 10 points.10
CorkMarseille
Score3848
Drinking venues within 4 km361544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8183
Nightclubs within 4 km930
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 15 points.15
CorkMarseille
Score5237
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %7456
Park area within 2 km48 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Marseille leads by 17 points.17
CorkMarseille
Score2744
Tourist attractions within 2 km717
Park area within 2 km48 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 36 points.36
CorkMarseille
Score2258
Notable places within 2 km14111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 5 points.5
CorkMarseille
Score5762
Price level global80.273.7
Daily budget€187€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 26 points.26
CorkMarseille
Score4975
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm11 mm to 82 mm
Dry months06
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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
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
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkMarseille
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 50 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
FaroFAO
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 15 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureCorkMarseille
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkMarseille
City population222,333886,040
People per km²5,9613,683
Museums within 10 km527
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4993
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.