VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Marseille?

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

Your match

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips 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.

DubrovnikMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 10 points.10
DubrovnikMarseille
Score7767
Swim season months52
Beaches 10 km4364
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 37 points.37
DubrovnikMarseille
Score3875
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2061,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1839
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 1 points.1
DubrovnikMarseille
Score4950
Museums within 10 km1833
Museums within 2 km of centre1723
Share of museums within 2 km %9470
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 28 points.28
DubrovnikMarseille
Score2048
Drinking venues within 4 km128544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8683
Nightclubs within 4 km1330
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 32 points.32
DubrovnikMarseille
Score537
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %413
Land share of disc %5156
Park area within 2 km6 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Marseille leads by 23 points.23
DubrovnikMarseille
Score2144
Tourist attractions within 2 km1217
Park area within 2 km6 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 14 points.14
DubrovnikMarseille
Score4458
Notable places within 2 km48111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 18 points.18
DubrovnikMarseille
Score8062
Price level global48.573.7
Daily budget€138€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 10 points.10
DubrovnikMarseille
Score6575
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
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. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikMarseille
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
1 h 50 m
€123-230
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 40 m
€255-303
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
4 h 5 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

MeasureDubrovnikMarseille
Official languageCroatianFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikMarseille
City population41,562886,040
People per km²3,683
Museums within 10 km727
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre3293
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months2 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.