VacationSelector

Marseille or Seoul?

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.

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

MarseilleSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 52 points.52
MarseilleSeoul
Score6715
Swim season months22
Beaches 10 km641
Coast distance0 km28 km
Water distance0 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 10 points.10
MarseilleSeoul
Score7585
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3203,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3932
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 33 points.33
MarseilleSeoul
Score5083
Museums within 10 km33203
Museums within 2 km of centre2390
Share of museums within 2 km %7044
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 32 points.32
MarseilleSeoul
Score4880
Drinking venues within 4 km5443,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4541,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8350
Nightclubs within 4 km3029
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 5 points.5
MarseilleSeoul
Score3732
Protected land share 50 km %151
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %5695
Park area within 2 km25 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 35 points.35
MarseilleSeoul
Score4479
Tourist attractions within 2 km1762
Park area within 2 km25 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km48
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 1 points.1
MarseilleSeoul
Score5859
Notable places within 2 km111118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 10 points.10
MarseilleSeoul
Score6272
Price level global73.759.4
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 14 points.14
MarseilleSeoul
Score7561
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm18 mm to 422 mm
Dry months64
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
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleSeoul
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
10 h 0 m
€493-591
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 40 m
€197-199
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 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

MeasureMarseilleSeoul
Official languageFrenchKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation0 m38 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleSeoul
City population886,0409,668,465
People per km²3,68315,973
Museums within 10 km2780
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre93156
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months2 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.