VacationSelector

Marseille or Split?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Split
51
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

MarseilleSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 6 points.6
MarseilleSplit
Score6773
Swim season months24
Beaches 10 km6487
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 37 points.37
MarseilleSplit
Score7538
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,320268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3915
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 2 points.2
MarseilleSplit
Score5052
Museums within 10 km3318
Museums within 2 km of centre2316
Share of museums within 2 km %7089
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 7 points.7
MarseilleSplit
Score4841
Drinking venues within 4 km544379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8369
Nightclubs within 4 km3023
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 1 points.1
MarseilleSplit
Score3738
Protected land share 50 km %159
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %5662
Park area within 2 km25 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Marseille leads by 18 points.18
MarseilleSplit
Score4426
Tourist attractions within 2 km179
Park area within 2 km25 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 16 points.16
MarseilleSplit
Score5842
Notable places within 2 km11143
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 18 points.18
MarseilleSplit
Score6280
Price level global73.748.5
Daily budget€160€138
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 6 points.6
MarseilleSplit
Score7569
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months62
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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F
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A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€123-230
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SPU · 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureMarseilleSplit
Official languageFrenchCroatian
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 m0 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleSplit
City population886,040160,577
People per km²3,683
Museums within 10 km2711
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre9331
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months4 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.