VacationSelector

Bangkok or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

BangkokMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokMarrakech
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance23 km134 km
Water distance23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 29 points.29
BangkokMarrakech
Score8354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2626
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokMarrakech
Score4644
Museums within 10 km10322
Museums within 2 km of centre3017
Share of museums within 2 km %2977
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 46 points.46
BangkokMarrakech
Score8337
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4157
Nightclubs within 4 km7232
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 1 points.1
BangkokMarrakech
Score5152
Protected land share 50 km %
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km42 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 4 points.4
BangkokMarrakech
Score5753
Tourist attractions within 2 km3128
Park area within 2 km42 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokMarrakech
Score4846
Notable places within 2 km6255
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 7 points.7
BangkokMarrakech
Score9386
Price level global29.739.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 25 points.25
BangkokMarrakech
Score5681
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months312
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 20 m
€165-220
2 stops
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

MeasureBangkokMarrakech
Official languageThaiArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyBaht (THB)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation2 m465 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokMarrakech
City population5,676,6481,002,697
People per km²3,6194,360
Museums within 10 km5914
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9156
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.