VacationSelector

Marseille or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Marseille
57
match

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

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

MarseilleWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 67 points.67
MarseilleWarsaw
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km6426
Coast distance0 km238 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 3 points.3
MarseilleWarsaw
Score7572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3201,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3934
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 13 points.13
MarseilleWarsaw
Score5063
Museums within 10 km33107
Museums within 2 km of centre2360
Share of museums within 2 km %7056
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 14 points.14
MarseilleWarsaw
Score4862
Drinking venues within 4 km5441,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8364
Nightclubs within 4 km30104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 18 points.18
MarseilleWarsaw
Score3755
Protected land share 50 km %1527
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1319
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km25 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 26 points.26
MarseilleWarsaw
Score4470
Tourist attractions within 2 km1742
Park area within 2 km25 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 18 points.18
MarseilleWarsaw
Score5876
Notable places within 2 km111299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 17 points.17
MarseilleWarsaw
Score6279
Price level global73.749
Daily budget€160€133
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 16 points.16
MarseilleWarsaw
Score7559
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months66
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleWarsaw
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureMarseilleWarsaw
Official languageFrenchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m118 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleWarsaw
City population886,0401,862,402
People per km²3,6833,601
Museums within 10 km27117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre9376
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. 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.