VacationSelector

Dublin or Marseille?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Dublin
55
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

DublinMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 18 points.18
DublinMarseille
Score4967
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km1164
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 5 points.5
DublinMarseille
Score7075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9201,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3739
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 5 points.5
DublinMarseille
Score5550
Museums within 10 km4733
Museums within 2 km of centre3723
Share of museums within 2 km %7970
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 16 points.16
DublinMarseille
Score6448
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7583
Nightclubs within 4 km4030
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 11 points.11
DublinMarseille
Score2637
Protected land share 50 km %315
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %6256
Park area within 2 km43 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 10 points.10
DublinMarseille
Score5444
Tourist attractions within 2 km4117
Park area within 2 km43 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 4 points.4
DublinMarseille
Score6258
Notable places within 2 km141111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 5 points.5
DublinMarseille
Score5762
Price level global80.273.7
Daily budget€187€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 21 points.21
DublinMarseille
Score5475
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinMarseille
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
€60-123
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€93-114
DUB · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
NantesNTE
1 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 15 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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

MeasureDublinMarseille
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
Elevation20 m0 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinMarseille
City population592,713886,040
People per km²5,1543,683
Museums within 10 km4027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7493
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.