VacationSelector

Marseille or Salzburg?

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

Your match

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
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.

MarseilleSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 67 points.67
MarseilleSalzburg
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km649
Coast distance0 km653 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 26 points.26
MarseilleSalzburg
Score7549
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,320348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3923
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 10 points.10
MarseilleSalzburg
Score5060
Museums within 10 km3342
Museums within 2 km of centre2327
Share of museums within 2 km %7064
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 12 points.12
MarseilleSalzburg
Score4836
Drinking venues within 4 km544294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8382
Nightclubs within 4 km3016
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 10 points.10
MarseilleSalzburg
Score3727
Protected land share 50 km %156
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km25 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 4 points.4
MarseilleSalzburg
Score4448
Tourist attractions within 2 km1717
Park area within 2 km25 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 12 points.12
MarseilleSalzburg
Score5846
Notable places within 2 km11154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 3 points.3
MarseilleSalzburg
Score6259
Price level global73.776.9
Daily budget€160€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 21 points.21
MarseilleSalzburg
Score7554
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleSalzburg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureMarseilleSalzburg
Official languageFrenchGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m424 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleSalzburg
City population886,040155,021
People per km²3,6832,360
Museums within 10 km2738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre9350
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.