VacationSelector

Marseille or York?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MarseilleYork
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 67 points.67
MarseilleYork
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km642
Coast distance0 km50 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 21 points.21
MarseilleYork
Score7554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,320361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3931
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 4 points.4
MarseilleYork
Score5046
Museums within 10 km3318
Museums within 2 km of centre2316
Share of museums within 2 km %7089
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 5 points.5
MarseilleYork
Score4843
Drinking venues within 4 km544450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8378
Nightclubs within 4 km3014
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 4 points.4
MarseilleYork
Score3733
Protected land share 50 km %1517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1316
Land share of disc %5695
Park area within 2 km25 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Marseille leads by 1 points.1
MarseilleYork
Score4443
Tourist attractions within 2 km1713
Park area within 2 km25 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 19 points.19
MarseilleYork
Score5839
Notable places within 2 km11137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marseille leads by 8 points.8
MarseilleYork
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 19 points.19
MarseilleYork
Score7556
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm39 mm to 66 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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M
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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleYork
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 21 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 35 m
€114-174
MRS · 21 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AgadirAGA
3 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureMarseilleYork
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation0 m25 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleYork
City population886,040208,400
People per km²3,683766
Museums within 10 km2724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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. 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.