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The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
BerlinThe Brandenburg Gate
The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls

Photos: Berlin by Claudia Solano, Pexels License; Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License.

Berlin or Essaouira?

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 Berlin for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Essaouira for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Essaouira’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. Berlin 38, Essaouira 47: Essaouira leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Berlin 66, Essaouira 44: Berlin leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Berlin 86, Essaouira 48: Berlin leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Berlin 98, Essaouira 14: Berlin leads by 84 points.
Nature & outdoors. Berlin 50, Essaouira 57: Essaouira leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Berlin 66, Essaouira 17: Berlin leads by 49 points.
Good for families. Berlin 76, Essaouira 42: Berlin leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Berlin 82, Essaouira 58: Berlin leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Berlin 68, Essaouira 44: Berlin leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Berlin 48, Essaouira 74: Essaouira leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Berlin 90, Essaouira 28: Berlin leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Berlin 55, Essaouira 66: Essaouira leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Berlin and Essaouira.

Your match

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

Berlin
Best match
69match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Essaouira
45match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Berlin in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Essaouira has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBerlinEssaouira
Official languageGermanArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation34 m11 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinEssaouira
City population3,700,57782,962
People per km²4,15316,592
Museums within 10 km1572
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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). 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. 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.