VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Marseille?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

Los AngelesMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 38 points.38
Los AngelesMarseille
Score2967
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km064
Swim season months02
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 9 points.9
Los AngelesMarseille
Score6675
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3371,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2239
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 1 points.1
Los AngelesMarseille
Score4950
Museums within 10 km6933
Museums within 2 km of centre2323
Share of museums within 2 km %3370
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 6 points.6
Los AngelesMarseille
Score5448
Drinking venues within 4 km660544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6583
Nightclubs within 4 km6430
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 25 points.25
Los AngelesMarseille
Score6237
Protected land share 50 km %2615
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %8056
Park area within 2 km20 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Marseille leads by 11 points.11
Los AngelesMarseille
Score3344
Tourist attractions within 2 km1117
Park area within 2 km20 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 4 points.4
Los AngelesMarseille
Score5458
Notable places within 2 km88111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 19 points.19
Los AngelesMarseille
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 12 points.12
Los AngelesMarseille
Score8775
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 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.

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Daytime high, °C
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesMarseille
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MunichMUC
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
LisbonLIS
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
€570-646
LAX · 19 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLos AngelesMarseille
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m0 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesMarseille
City population3,898,747886,040
People per km²2,9943,683
Museums within 10 km3827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4693
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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.