VacationSelector

Avignon or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Avignon
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AvignonMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Marrakech are level on 0.
AvignonMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance55 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
AvignonMarrakech
Score4454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1826
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 11 points.11
AvignonMarrakech
Score5544
Museums within 10 km1722
Museums within 2 km of centre1617
Share of museums within 2 km %9477
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 21 points.21
AvignonMarrakech
Score1637
Drinking venues within 4 km115282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8457
Nightclubs within 4 km432
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 8 points.8
AvignonMarrakech
Score4452
Protected land share 50 km %36
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 11 points.11
AvignonMarrakech
Score4253
Tourist attractions within 2 km1528
Park area within 2 km23 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
AvignonMarrakech
Score4046
Notable places within 2 km4055
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
AvignonMarrakech
Score6286
Price level global73.739.8
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 11 points.11
AvignonMarrakech
Score7081
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months212
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
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonMarrakech
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 65 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 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

MeasureAvignonMarrakech
Official languageFrenchArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation10 m465 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonMarrakech
City population92,1881,002,697
People per km²1,4204,360
Museums within 10 km1114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre3656

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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. 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.