VacationSelector

Marseille or Vancouver?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Marseille
57
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

MarseilleVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 7 points.7
MarseilleVancouver
Score6760
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km64109
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 1 points.1
MarseilleVancouver
Score7574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3201,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3935
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 16 points.16
MarseilleVancouver
Score5034
Museums within 10 km3327
Museums within 2 km of centre2315
Share of museums within 2 km %7056
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 9 points.9
MarseilleVancouver
Score4857
Drinking venues within 4 km544848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8371
Nightclubs within 4 km3044
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 40 points.40
MarseilleVancouver
Score3777
Protected land share 50 km %1519
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %5660
Park area within 2 km25 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 9 points.9
MarseilleVancouver
Score4453
Tourist attractions within 2 km1715
Park area within 2 km25 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 10 points.10
MarseilleVancouver
Score5848
Notable places within 2 km11163
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 8 points.8
MarseilleVancouver
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 22 points.22
MarseilleVancouver
Score7553
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleVancouver
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 20 m
€629-762
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 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

MeasureMarseilleVancouver
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleVancouver
City population886,040662,248
People per km²3,6835,759
Museums within 10 km2726
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre9385
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. 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.