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The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town
La Major cathedral from the harbour, Marseille
MarseilleLa Major cathedral from the harbour

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Marseille by Charlotte Noblet, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Krabi or Marseille?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Krabi for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’s own page.

Choose Marseille for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Marseille’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Krabi 87, Marseille 72: Krabi leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Marseille 67: Marseille leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Marseille 63: Marseille leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Marseille 57: Marseille leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Marseille 83: Krabi leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Marseille 86: Marseille leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Marseille 50: Krabi leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Marseille 57: Marseille leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Marseille 47: Marseille leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Marseille 45: Krabi leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Marseille 56: Marseille leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Marseille 37: Krabi leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Marseille.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Krabi
49match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Marseille
Best match
60match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Marseille in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiMarseille
Official languageThaiFrench
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation16 m0 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre126 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiMarseille
City population30,499886,040
People per km²-3,683
Museums within 10 km027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.