VacationSelector

Marseille or New York?

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

Your match

Marseille
57
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

MarseilleNew York
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 3 points.3
MarseilleNew York
Score6764
Swim season months23
Beaches 10 km6417
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 20 points.20
MarseilleNew York
Score7595
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3206,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3938
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 10 points.10
MarseilleNew York
Score5060
Museums within 10 km33119
Museums within 2 km of centre2331
Share of museums within 2 km %7026
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. New York leads by 41 points.41
MarseilleNew York
Score4889
Drinking venues within 4 km5444,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4542,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8348
Nightclubs within 4 km30192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 2 points.2
MarseilleNew York
Score3739
Protected land share 50 km %154
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %5669
Park area within 2 km25 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 28 points.28
MarseilleNew York
Score4472
Tourist attractions within 2 km1737
Park area within 2 km25 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km47
Sights concentration. New York leads by 16 points.16
MarseilleNew York
Score5874
Notable places within 2 km111268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 19 points.19
MarseilleNew York
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 17 points.17
MarseilleNew York
Score7558
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
New York
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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleNew York
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 15 m
€229-272
LGA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 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

MeasureMarseilleNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleNew York
City population886,0408,804,190
People per km²3,6837,256
Museums within 10 km27157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre93132
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months3 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.