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La Major cathedral from the harbour, Marseille
MarseilleLa Major cathedral from the harbour
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Marseille by Charlotte Noblet, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Marseille or Sedona?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Marseille for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Marseille’s own page.

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Marseille 72, Sedona 16: Marseille leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Marseille 67, Sedona 33: Marseille leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Marseille 63, Sedona 20: Marseille leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Marseille 57, Sedona 8: Marseille leads by 49 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marseille 83, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Marseille 86, Sedona 55: Marseille leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Marseille 50, Sedona 42: Marseille leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Marseille 57, Sedona 22: Marseille leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Marseille 47, Sedona 34: Marseille leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Marseille 45, Sedona 18: Marseille leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marseille 56, Sedona 13: Marseille leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marseille 37, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marseille and Sedona.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Marseille
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Marseille in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarseilleSedona
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m1,319 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleSedona
City population886,0409,684
People per km²3,683195
Museums within 10 km270
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.