VacationSelector

Marseille or Toronto?

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

Toronto
54
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

MarseilleToronto
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 24 points.24
MarseilleToronto
Score6743
Swim season months21
Beaches 10 km6458
Coast distance0 km533 km
Water distance0 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
MarseilleToronto
Score7582
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3202,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3939
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 7 points.7
MarseilleToronto
Score5043
Museums within 10 km3335
Museums within 2 km of centre2325
Share of museums within 2 km %7071
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 21 points.21
MarseilleToronto
Score4869
Drinking venues within 4 km5441,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8364
Nightclubs within 4 km30103
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 11 points.11
MarseilleToronto
Score3726
Protected land share 50 km %152
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km25 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 13 points.13
MarseilleToronto
Score4457
Tourist attractions within 2 km1723
Park area within 2 km25 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 3 points.3
MarseilleToronto
Score5861
Notable places within 2 km111128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 8 points.8
MarseilleToronto
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 20 points.20
MarseilleToronto
Score7555
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm51 mm to 85 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
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
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleToronto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureMarseilleToronto
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m76 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleToronto
City population886,0402,794,356
People per km²3,6834,434
Museums within 10 km2732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre93102
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months1 month

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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. 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.