VacationSelector

Beijing or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

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

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BeijingMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Beijing and Marrakech are level on 0.
BeijingMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance145 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 19 points.19
BeijingMarrakech
Score6344
Museums within 10 km9522
Museums within 2 km of centre1517
Share of museums within 2 km %1677
Unesco sites within 50 km61
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 17 points.17
BeijingMarrakech
Score3552
Protected land share 50 km %3
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km143 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 24 points.24
BeijingMarrakech
Score7753
Tourist attractions within 2 km4128
Park area within 2 km143 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km122
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 4 points.4
BeijingMarrakech
Score5046
Notable places within 2 km6955
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
BeijingMarrakech
Score7986
Price level global4939.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
BeijingMarrakech
Score6681
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months812
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
10 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
12 h 5 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
BerlinBER
9 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€180-258
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
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 2026-10, 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

MeasureBeijingMarrakech
Official languagePutonghuaArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation43 m465 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingMarrakech
City population21,893,0951,002,697
People per km²1,3344,360
Museums within 10 km8314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre2956

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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). 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.