VacationSelector

Marseille or Singapore?

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 year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

MarseilleSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 33 points.33
MarseilleSingapore
Score67100
Swim season months212
Beaches 10 km6442
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 12 points.12
MarseilleSingapore
Score7587
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3204,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3931
Museums & heritage. Marseille and Singapore are level on 50.
MarseilleSingapore
Score5050
Museums within 10 km3357
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %7046
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 26 points.26
MarseilleSingapore
Score4874
Drinking venues within 4 km5441,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4541,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8371
Nightclubs within 4 km3077
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 3 points.3
MarseilleSingapore
Score3734
Protected land share 50 km %151
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %5653
Park area within 2 km25 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 24 points.24
MarseilleSingapore
Score4468
Tourist attractions within 2 km1728
Park area within 2 km25 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 8 points.8
MarseilleSingapore
Score5866
Notable places within 2 km111172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 8 points.8
MarseilleSingapore
Score6270
Price level global73.762
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 13 points.13
MarseilleSingapore
Score7562
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm109 mm to 329 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
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
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). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleSingapore
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
JeddahJED
5 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
SIN · 17 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

MeasureMarseilleSingapore
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation0 m21 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleSingapore
City population886,0405,866,139
People per km²3,6838,158
Museums within 10 km2740
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre93107
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.