VacationSelector

Marseille or Munich?

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, level with your weighting

Marseille
57
match

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

Munich
57
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

MarseilleMunich
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 67 points.67
MarseilleMunich
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km646
Coast distance0 km579 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 2 points.2
MarseilleMunich
Score7573
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3201,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3935
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 11 points.11
MarseilleMunich
Score5061
Museums within 10 km3374
Museums within 2 km of centre2348
Share of museums within 2 km %7065
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Munich leads by 19 points.19
MarseilleMunich
Score4867
Drinking venues within 4 km5441,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8357
Nightclubs within 4 km30103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 11 points.11
MarseilleMunich
Score3748
Protected land share 50 km %1517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1315
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km25 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 35 points.35
MarseilleMunich
Score4479
Tourist attractions within 2 km1780
Park area within 2 km25 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 10 points.10
MarseilleMunich
Score5868
Notable places within 2 km111196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 2 points.2
MarseilleMunich
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 19 points.19
MarseilleMunich
Score7556
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleMunich
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureMarseilleMunich
Official languageFrenchGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m519 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleMunich
City population886,0401,510,378
People per km²3,6834,861
Museums within 10 km2774
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre9389
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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.