VacationSelector

Limassol or Marseille?

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

Your match

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LimassolMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 12 points.12
LimassolMarseille
Score7967
Swim season months62
Beaches 10 km2764
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 32 points.32
LimassolMarseille
Score4375
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2981,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1939
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 6 points.6
LimassolMarseille
Score4450
Museums within 10 km1733
Museums within 2 km of centre1023
Share of museums within 2 km %5970
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 9 points.9
LimassolMarseille
Score3948
Drinking venues within 4 km340544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7583
Nightclubs within 4 km2030
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 15 points.15
LimassolMarseille
Score2237
Protected land share 50 km %215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %4956
Park area within 2 km32 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Marseille leads by 28 points.28
LimassolMarseille
Score1644
Tourist attractions within 2 km317
Park area within 2 km32 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 44 points.44
LimassolMarseille
Score1458
Notable places within 2 km9111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 8 points.8
LimassolMarseille
Score7062
Price level global61.473.7
Daily budget€129€160
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 10 points.10
LimassolMarseille
Score8575
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm11 mm to 82 mm
Dry months86
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
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. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLimassolMarseille
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
BordeauxBOD
4 h 15 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 40 m
€160-212
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 50 m
€123-230
1 stop
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

MeasureLimassolMarseille
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolMarseille
City population107,970886,040
People per km²2,4053,683
Museums within 10 km227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2893
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months2 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Limassol or Marseille somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.