VacationSelector

Lisbon or Marseille?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Marseille
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

LisbonMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 10 points.10
LisbonMarseille
Score5767
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km2464
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 5 points.5
LisbonMarseille
Score8075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4961,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3139
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
LisbonMarseille
Score7050
Museums within 10 km12433
Museums within 2 km of centre5423
Share of museums within 2 km %4470
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 17 points.17
LisbonMarseille
Score6548
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7883
Nightclubs within 4 km6530
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 19 points.19
LisbonMarseille
Score5637
Protected land share 50 km %1115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %5456
Park area within 2 km77 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 25 points.25
LisbonMarseille
Score6944
Tourist attractions within 2 km8217
Park area within 2 km77 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 8 points.8
LisbonMarseille
Score6658
Notable places within 2 km169111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
LisbonMarseille
Score7462
Price level global55.973.7
Daily budget€109€160
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 3 points.3
LisbonMarseille
Score7875
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm11 mm to 82 mm
Dry months46
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
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
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonMarseille
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
€129-223
LIS · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
FunchalFNC
1 h 50 m
€132-180
LIS · 7 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
€532-732
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
11 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

MeasureLisbonMarseille
Official languagePortugueseFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m0 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonMarseille
City population545,796886,040
People per km²5,4533,683
Museums within 10 km7827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre10693
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). 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.