VacationSelector

Antalya or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Antalya
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

AntalyaMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 72 points.72
AntalyaMarrakech
Score720
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance1 km134 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
AntalyaMarrakech
Score4554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre638461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1126
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 19 points.19
AntalyaMarrakech
Score2544
Museums within 10 km1122
Museums within 2 km of centre817
Share of museums within 2 km %7377
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Antalya leads by 22 points.22
AntalyaMarrakech
Score5937
Drinking venues within 4 km917282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5657
Nightclubs within 4 km5532
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 11 points.11
AntalyaMarrakech
Score4152
Protected land share 50 km %8
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 13 points.13
AntalyaMarrakech
Score4053
Tourist attractions within 2 km628
Park area within 2 km69 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 19 points.19
AntalyaMarrakech
Score2746
Notable places within 2 km1955
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 3 points.3
AntalyaMarrakech
Score8986
Price level global35.239.8
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
AntalyaMarrakech
Score7181
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months412
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
Antalya
15
16
19
22
26
31
35
35
32
27
22
17
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
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. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaMarrakech
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 45 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 20 m
€173-185
AYT · 9 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
3 h 35 m
€173-209
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 45 m
€168-195
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 15 m
€178-213
AYT · 9 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BerlinBER
3 h 15 m
€135-164
AYT · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€180-258
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 50 m
€147-160
AYT · 9 km
4 h 30 m
€148-173
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

MeasureAntalyaMarrakech
Official languageTurkishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation30 m465 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaMarrakech
City population2,426,3561,002,697
People per km²1,7124,360
Museums within 10 km514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2256
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.