VacationSelector

Marseille or Tallinn?

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 year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

MarseilleTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 13 points.13
MarseilleTallinn
Score6754
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km6418
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 13 points.13
MarseilleTallinn
Score7562
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,320481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3939
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 12 points.12
MarseilleTallinn
Score5062
Museums within 10 km3371
Museums within 2 km of centre2357
Share of museums within 2 km %7080
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 2 points.2
MarseilleTallinn
Score4846
Drinking venues within 4 km544462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8380
Nightclubs within 4 km3043
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 6 points.6
MarseilleTallinn
Score3731
Protected land share 50 km %152
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %5653
Park area within 2 km25 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 7 points.7
MarseilleTallinn
Score4451
Tourist attractions within 2 km1720
Park area within 2 km25 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 4 points.4
MarseilleTallinn
Score5862
Notable places within 2 km111135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 8 points.8
MarseilleTallinn
Score6270
Price level global73.762.4
Daily budget€160€143
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 27 points.27
MarseilleTallinn
Score7548
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm34 mm to 83 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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F
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A
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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tallinn
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
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
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). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleTallinn
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ChaniaCHQ
2 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 99 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

MeasureMarseilleTallinn
Official languageFrenchEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m28 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleTallinn
City population886,040457,572
People per km²3,6832,871
Museums within 10 km2715
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre9363
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. 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.