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La Major cathedral from the harbour, Marseille
MarseilleLa Major cathedral from the harbour
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Marseille by Charlotte Noblet, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Marseille or Stockholm?

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
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • families
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Marseille leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Marseille 67, Stockholm 64: Marseille leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Marseille 63, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Marseille and Stockholm are level on 57.
Nature & outdoors. Marseille 83, Stockholm 72: Marseille leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Marseille 86, Stockholm 68: Marseille leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Marseille 50, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Marseille 57, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Marseille 47, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Marseille 45, Stockholm 30: Marseille leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marseille 56, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marseille 37, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marseille and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Marseille
60match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on families and getting around 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

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 centre126 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.