VacationSelector

Marseille or Vienna?

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, 2 points apart

Marseille
57
match

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

Vienna
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

MarseilleVienna
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 67 points.67
MarseilleVienna
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km6422
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 2 points.2
MarseilleVienna
Score7577
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3201,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3937
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 31 points.31
MarseilleVienna
Score5081
Museums within 10 km33192
Museums within 2 km of centre23110
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 26 points.26
MarseilleVienna
Score4874
Drinking venues within 4 km5441,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4541,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8356
Nightclubs within 4 km30108
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 5 points.5
MarseilleVienna
Score3732
Protected land share 50 km %154
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km25 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 25 points.25
MarseilleVienna
Score4469
Tourist attractions within 2 km1746
Park area within 2 km25 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 17 points.17
MarseilleVienna
Score5875
Notable places within 2 km111287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 3 points.3
MarseilleVienna
Score6259
Price level global73.776.9
Daily budget€160€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 14 points.14
MarseilleVienna
Score7561
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months61
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleVienna
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€63-153
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 45 m
€152-183
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 35 m
€84-160
VIE · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasureMarseilleVienna
Official languageFrenchGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m151 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleVienna
City population886,0402,028,289
People per km²3,6834,890
Museums within 10 km27152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre93113
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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.