VacationSelector
The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License.

Arequipa or Casablanca?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Arequipa for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Arequipa’s own page.

Choose Casablanca for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Casablanca’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Arequipa 8, Casablanca 50: Casablanca leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Casablanca 60: Arequipa leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Casablanca 52: Arequipa leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Casablanca 44: Casablanca leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Casablanca 33: Arequipa leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Casablanca 55: Casablanca leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Casablanca 38: Casablanca leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Casablanca 42: Arequipa leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Casablanca 50: Casablanca leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Casablanca 68: Arequipa leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Casablanca 38: Casablanca leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Casablanca 52: Casablanca leads by 18 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Casablanca.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Arequipa
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

Casablanca
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

020406080JFMAMJJASOND
ArequipaCasablanca

Where the figures come from

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaCasablanca
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencySol (PEN)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1
Emergency number111 or 911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation2,335 m115 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaCasablanca
City population1,008,2903,215,935
People per km²1,5518,375
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Arequipa or Casablanca somewhere new.

Browse every destination

Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.