VacationSelector

Marseille or Stockholm?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

MarseilleStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 7 points.7
MarseilleStockholm
Score6760
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km6473
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
MarseilleStockholm
Score7576
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3201,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3936
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 19 points.19
MarseilleStockholm
Score5069
Museums within 10 km3374
Museums within 2 km of centre2347
Share of museums within 2 km %7064
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 16 points.16
MarseilleStockholm
Score4864
Drinking venues within 4 km5441,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8363
Nightclubs within 4 km30106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 4 points.4
MarseilleStockholm
Score3741
Protected land share 50 km %157
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %5677
Park area within 2 km25 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 13 points.13
MarseilleStockholm
Score4457
Tourist attractions within 2 km1723
Park area within 2 km25 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 21 points.21
MarseilleStockholm
Score5879
Notable places within 2 km111357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 5 points.5
MarseilleStockholm
Score6257
Price level global73.780.3
Daily budget€160€169
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 22 points.22
MarseilleStockholm
Score7553
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months65
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleStockholm
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€197-225
1 stop
MPL · 118 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€50-80
ARN · 36 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
3 h 5 m
€99-123
ARN · 36 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

MeasureMarseilleStockholm
Official languageFrenchSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m22 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleStockholm
City population886,040984,748
People per km²3,6835,260
Museums within 10 km27266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre9381
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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.