VacationSelector

Marseille or Prague?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
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.

MarseillePrague
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 67 points.67
MarseillePrague
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km647
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marseille and Prague are level on 75.
MarseillePrague
Score7575
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3201,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3929
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 22 points.22
MarseillePrague
Score5072
Museums within 10 km33138
Museums within 2 km of centre23100
Share of museums within 2 km %7072
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Prague leads by 29 points.29
MarseillePrague
Score4877
Drinking venues within 4 km5442,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4541,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8365
Nightclubs within 4 km30123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 8 points.8
MarseillePrague
Score3745
Protected land share 50 km %1512
Landscape blanket share 50 km %138
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km25 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 31 points.31
MarseillePrague
Score4475
Tourist attractions within 2 km1754
Park area within 2 km25 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 18 points.18
MarseillePrague
Score5876
Notable places within 2 km111310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 13 points.13
MarseillePrague
Score6275
Price level global73.755.2
Daily budget€160€107
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 14 points.14
MarseillePrague
Score7561
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months67
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseillePrague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 21 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 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

MeasureMarseillePrague
Official languageFrenchCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m235 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseillePrague
City population886,0401,397,880
People per km²3,6832,817
Museums within 10 km2788
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. 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.