VacationSelector

Marseille or Venice?

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 places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Venice
57
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.

MarseilleVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 2 points.2
MarseilleVenice
Score6769
Swim season months24
Beaches 10 km6420
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km4 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 30 points.30
MarseilleVenice
Score7545
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,320750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3910
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 22 points.22
MarseilleVenice
Score5072
Museums within 10 km3357
Museums within 2 km of centre2345
Share of museums within 2 km %7079
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 13 points.13
MarseilleVenice
Score4835
Drinking venues within 4 km544342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8389
Nightclubs within 4 km303
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 20 points.20
MarseilleVenice
Score3717
Protected land share 50 km %154
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %5670
Park area within 2 km25 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 13 points.13
MarseilleVenice
Score4457
Tourist attractions within 2 km1772
Park area within 2 km25 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 25 points.25
MarseilleVenice
Score5883
Notable places within 2 km111464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 6 points.6
MarseilleVenice
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 9 points.9
MarseilleVenice
Score7566
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months62
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 40 m
€44-65
TSF · 26 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasureMarseilleVenice
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleVenice
City population886,040250,369
People per km²3,683602
Museums within 10 km2752
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre9346
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months4 months

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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.