VacationSelector

Bath or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

BathMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathMarrakech
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance29 km134 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 8 points.8
BathMarrakech
Score4654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2626
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 3 points.3
BathMarrakech
Score4744
Museums within 10 km2022
Museums within 2 km of centre1417
Share of museums within 2 km %7077
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 1 points.1
BathMarrakech
Score3637
Drinking venues within 4 km320282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7557
Nightclubs within 4 km1132
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 8 points.8
BathMarrakech
Score4452
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 13 points.13
BathMarrakech
Score4053
Tourist attractions within 2 km1428
Park area within 2 km45 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 14 points.14
BathMarrakech
Score3246
Notable places within 2 km2555
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 32 points.32
BathMarrakech
Score5486
Price level global84.939.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 26 points.26
BathMarrakech
Score5581
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months012
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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathMarrakech
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
ToulouseTLS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€128-233
RAK · 6 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€102-113
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureBathMarrakech
Official languageEnglishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112 or 999Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation132 m465 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathMarrakech
City population94,0921,002,697
People per km²3,2454,360
Museums within 10 km1714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3856
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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.