VacationSelector

Izmir or Marseille?

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

Your match

Izmir
53
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

IzmirMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 12 points.12
IzmirMarseille
Score5567
Swim season months52
Beaches 10 km464
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 26 points.26
IzmirMarseille
Score4975
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7701,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1239
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 7 points.7
IzmirMarseille
Score4350
Museums within 10 km4733
Museums within 2 km of centre2723
Share of museums within 2 km %5770
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
IzmirMarseille
Score6248
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6883
Nightclubs within 4 km7030
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 8 points.8
IzmirMarseille
Score2937
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %8456
Park area within 2 km62 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Marseille leads by 9 points.9
IzmirMarseille
Score3544
Tourist attractions within 2 km617
Park area within 2 km62 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 18 points.18
IzmirMarseille
Score4058
Notable places within 2 km39111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 27 points.27
IzmirMarseille
Score8962
Price level global35.273.7
Daily budget€100€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 3 points.3
IzmirMarseille
Score7275
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm11 mm to 82 mm
Dry months56
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
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. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirMarseille
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
NantesNTE
3 h 40 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 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

MeasureIzmirMarseille
Official languageTurkishFrench
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m0 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirMarseille
City population4,493,242886,040
People per km²4,7603,683
Museums within 10 km2927
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2093
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). 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.