VacationSelector

Marseille or Porto?

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 beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

MarseillePorto
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 7 points.7
MarseillePorto
Score6760
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km6452
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 7 points.7
MarseillePorto
Score7568
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3201,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3927
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 21 points.21
MarseillePorto
Score5071
Museums within 10 km33101
Museums within 2 km of centre2357
Share of museums within 2 km %7056
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Porto leads by 10 points.10
MarseillePorto
Score4858
Drinking venues within 4 km544900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8363
Nightclubs within 4 km3038
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 4 points.4
MarseillePorto
Score3733
Protected land share 50 km %157
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %5661
Park area within 2 km25 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 21 points.21
MarseillePorto
Score4465
Tourist attractions within 2 km17122
Park area within 2 km25 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 4 points.4
MarseillePorto
Score5854
Notable places within 2 km11185
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 12 points.12
MarseillePorto
Score6274
Price level global73.755.9
Daily budget€160€109
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 4 points.4
MarseillePorto
Score7571
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months63
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseillePorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 21 km
1 h 40 m
€54-173
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasureMarseillePorto
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m104 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseillePorto
City population886,040231,800
People per km²3,6835,599
Museums within 10 km2742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre9370
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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.