VacationSelector

Marseille or West Palm Beach?

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 sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

MarseilleWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 21 points.21
MarseilleWest Palm Beach
Score6788
Swim season months212
Beaches 10 km6410
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 38 points.38
MarseilleWest Palm Beach
Score7537
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,320262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3914
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 33 points.33
MarseilleWest Palm Beach
Score5017
Museums within 10 km335
Museums within 2 km of centre233
Share of museums within 2 km %7060
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 28 points.28
MarseilleWest Palm Beach
Score4820
Drinking venues within 4 km544132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre45490
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8368
Nightclubs within 4 km3010
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 32 points.32
MarseilleWest Palm Beach
Score3769
Protected land share 50 km %1515
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %5645
Park area within 2 km25 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Marseille leads by 23 points.23
MarseilleWest Palm Beach
Score4421
Tourist attractions within 2 km173
Park area within 2 km25 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 46 points.46
MarseilleWest Palm Beach
Score5812
Notable places within 2 km1118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 19 points.19
MarseilleWest Palm Beach
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marseille and West Palm Beach are level on 75.
MarseilleWest Palm Beach
Score7575
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleWest Palm Beach
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureMarseilleWest Palm Beach
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleWest Palm Beach
City population886,040117,415
People per km²3,683786
Museums within 10 km274
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre9318
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 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.