VacationSelector

Gdansk 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, 1 point apart

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Marseille
57
match

Wins on places to eat and year-round weather 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.

GdanskMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 12 points.12
GdanskMarseille
Score5567
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km2064
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 23 points.23
GdanskMarseille
Score5275
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3481,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2839
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 7 points.7
GdanskMarseille
Score5750
Museums within 10 km4333
Museums within 2 km of centre2823
Share of museums within 2 km %6570
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 12 points.12
GdanskMarseille
Score3648
Drinking venues within 4 km269544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7583
Nightclubs within 4 km3030
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
GdanskMarseille
Score4537
Protected land share 50 km %1215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %313
Land share of disc %7056
Park area within 2 km61 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 31 points.31
GdanskMarseille
Score7544
Tourist attractions within 2 km10817
Park area within 2 km61 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 6 points.6
GdanskMarseille
Score5258
Notable places within 2 km76111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 17 points.17
GdanskMarseille
Score7962
Price level global4973.7
Daily budget€133€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 23 points.23
GdanskMarseille
Score5275
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 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
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
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. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskMarseille
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€197-225
1 stop
MPL · 118 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€114-174
MRS · 21 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
4 h 20 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

MeasureGdanskMarseille
Official languagePolishFrench
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m0 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskMarseille
City population487,834886,040
People per km²7143,683
Museums within 10 km3727
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4893
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.