VacationSelector

Granada or Marseille?

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

Your match

Granada
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

GranadaMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 67 points.67
GranadaMarseille
Score067
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km064
Coast distance48 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 8 points.8
GranadaMarseille
Score6775
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8721,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3439
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 2 points.2
GranadaMarseille
Score4850
Museums within 10 km2833
Museums within 2 km of centre2623
Share of museums within 2 km %9370
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Granada leads by 4 points.4
GranadaMarseille
Score5248
Drinking venues within 4 km637544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7883
Nightclubs within 4 km4630
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 26 points.26
GranadaMarseille
Score6337
Protected land share 50 km %2715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %9656
Park area within 2 km46 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 12 points.12
GranadaMarseille
Score5644
Tourist attractions within 2 km6017
Park area within 2 km46 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 14 points.14
GranadaMarseille
Score4458
Notable places within 2 km50111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 9 points.9
GranadaMarseille
Score7162
Price level global60.873.7
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 1 points.1
GranadaMarseille
Score7475
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm11 mm to 82 mm
Dry months76
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Granada
No coastline within reach
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
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. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaMarseille
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 97 km
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
NantesNTE
2 h 5 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 21 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 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

MeasureGranadaMarseille
Official languageSpanishFrench
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
Elevation693 m0 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaMarseille
City population233,975886,040
People per km²2,6593,683
Museums within 10 km1927
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6293
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.