VacationSelector

Biarritz or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Biarritz
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

BiarritzMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzMarrakech
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance1 km134 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 22 points.22
BiarritzMarrakech
Score3254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1326
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 13 points.13
BiarritzMarrakech
Score3144
Museums within 10 km1622
Museums within 2 km of centre517
Share of museums within 2 km %3177
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 22 points.22
BiarritzMarrakech
Score1537
Drinking venues within 4 km105282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7857
Nightclubs within 4 km632
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 22 points.22
BiarritzMarrakech
Score3052
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 32 points.32
BiarritzMarrakech
Score2153
Tourist attractions within 2 km228
Park area within 2 km32 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 23 points.23
BiarritzMarrakech
Score2346
Notable places within 2 km1555
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
BiarritzMarrakech
Score6286
Price level global73.739.8
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 16 points.16
BiarritzMarrakech
Score6581
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 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
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
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
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
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. Biarritz: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Fuenterrabia (24.4 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzMarrakech
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 45 m
€102-113
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
LyonLYS
1 h 20 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 55 m
€112-202
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
7 h 35 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBiarritzMarrakech
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
Elevation0 m465 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzMarrakech
City population26,2061,002,697
People per km²2,2404,360
Museums within 10 km814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2456
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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). 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.