VacationSelector

Marseille or Vilnius?

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.

Vilnius
51
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.

MarseilleVilnius
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 67 points.67
MarseilleVilnius
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km6416
Coast distance0 km260 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 15 points.15
MarseilleVilnius
Score7560
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,320537
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3932
Museums & heritage. Vilnius leads by 21 points.21
MarseilleVilnius
Score5071
Museums within 10 km3374
Museums within 2 km of centre2354
Share of museums within 2 km %7073
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 2 points.2
MarseilleVilnius
Score4846
Drinking venues within 4 km544464
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8384
Nightclubs within 4 km3039
Nature & day trips. Vilnius leads by 4 points.4
MarseilleVilnius
Score3741
Protected land share 50 km %1510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km25 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Vilnius leads by 7 points.7
MarseilleVilnius
Score4451
Tourist attractions within 2 km1727
Park area within 2 km25 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Vilnius leads by 7 points.7
MarseilleVilnius
Score5865
Notable places within 2 km111161
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vilnius leads by 14 points.14
MarseilleVilnius
Score6276
Price level global73.753.1
Daily budget€160€125
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 22 points.22
MarseilleVilnius
Score7553
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C-1.5 °C to 24 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm41 mm to 90 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
Vilnius
-1
0
4
13
19
22
24
23
18
10
4
0
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Vilnius
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Vilnius
48
42
41
41
60
66
90
78
58
58
45
49
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vilnius
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Vilnius
1
2
5
7
8
9
9
8
6
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). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleVilnius
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
VNO · 6 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

MeasureMarseilleVilnius
Official languageFrenchLithuanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m98 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleVilnius
City population886,040581,475
People per km²3,6831,450
Museums within 10 km2730
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre9354
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.