VacationSelector

Marseille or Miami?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Marseille
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

MarseilleMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 28 points.28
MarseilleMiami
Score6795
Swim season months212
Beaches 10 km6420
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 10 points.10
MarseilleMiami
Score7565
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,320898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3929
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 27 points.27
MarseilleMiami
Score5023
Museums within 10 km3328
Museums within 2 km of centre236
Share of museums within 2 km %7021
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Miami leads by 2 points.2
MarseilleMiami
Score4850
Drinking venues within 4 km544538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8353
Nightclubs within 4 km3063
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 35 points.35
MarseilleMiami
Score3772
Protected land share 50 km %1516
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %5648
Park area within 2 km25 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Marseille and Miami are level on 44.
MarseilleMiami
Score4444
Tourist attractions within 2 km1714
Park area within 2 km25 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 16 points.16
MarseilleMiami
Score5842
Notable places within 2 km11145
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 19 points.19
MarseilleMiami
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 1 points.1
MarseilleMiami
Score7574
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months60
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
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleMiami
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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

MeasureMarseilleMiami
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleMiami
City population886,040442,241
People per km²3,6833,046
Museums within 10 km2717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre9339
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.