VacationSelector

Alicante or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Alicante
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

AlicanteMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteMarrakech
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance1 km134 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 12 points.12
AlicanteMarrakech
Score6654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3126
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 2 points.2
AlicanteMarrakech
Score4244
Museums within 10 km1422
Museums within 2 km of centre1117
Share of museums within 2 km %7977
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteMarrakech
Score5137
Drinking venues within 4 km591282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8357
Nightclubs within 4 km5432
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 12 points.12
AlicanteMarrakech
Score4052
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteMarrakech
Score4253
Tourist attractions within 2 km1328
Park area within 2 km60 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 20 points.20
AlicanteMarrakech
Score2646
Notable places within 2 km1855
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
AlicanteMarrakech
Score7186
Price level global60.839.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 6 points.6
AlicanteMarrakech
Score8781
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months1112
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
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 30 m
€69-172
ALC · 10 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€62-83
ALC · 10 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
BristolBRS
2 h 25 m
€66-103
ALC · 10 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 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

MeasureAlicanteMarrakech
Official languageSpanishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation3 m465 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteMarrakech
City population366,2211,002,697
People per km²1,8194,360
Museums within 10 km814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5256
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.